Word: fram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Norway's Nansen let his famed Fram "drift" (in winter it was locked in the ice) for three icy years, to test the vagaries of polar currents, emerged from the ordeal with two strong conclusions: "I have never before understood what a magnificent invention soap really is"; "Oh, how tired I am! ... Why should we always make so much of truth? Life is more than cold truth, and we live but once...
...from the North Pole almost to central Greenland on an ice pan) to be head of Glavsevmorput'. Then the Soviet press started whooping up the drift of the Sedov as a national adventure story. Its goals: to drift closer to the North Pole than Nansen's celebrated Fram (1893-96); if possible, to reach the Pole (where Ivan Papanin planted the Red Flag...