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...biggest prize. Here it had not yet been decided whether man or bear was the crown of creation." But polar man knew a pretty sure way to kill polar bear. After spotting his game, he hid a tightly coiled splint of whalebone in a ball of blubber, froze it intact, and bowled it across the snow to the bear. After a few suspicious licks, the hungry bear usually gulped it down. Soon the blubber melted, releasing the coiled splint and wounding the bear. In the second phase of the hunt, the bear loped off in pain, dropping bloody dung which...
...China was concerned, State Department Mimeograph machines could churn out legal opinions until the Amazon froze without altering one fact: recognition of the Reds would be received through the world as a major change in U.S. policy, with enormous gain of "face" for Peking. It was the kind of problem honest men differed on: the influential Far Eastern division in State wanted to recognize; so far, Harry Truman was against. Most Congressmen who had spoken up at all were also against recognition. These were the arguments...
...swatted maggots from the festering wounds torn by saddle ropes on the animals' sides. Nausea, dizziness, frostbite and insomnia meanwhile began to affect the travelers themselves. "It made us feel like idiots," said Vincoe. In 18,600-foot Karakoram Pass, the sun burned their faces, and their tea froze before they could drink...
...Leverett line which, by outblocking and out-maneuvering the vaunted Gold Coast front, engineered the upset. The peak of the Bunny defensive play came late in the third quarter when the line froze an Adams threat on the Leverett four yard line...
...much the same either way. At the top, the Alpinist may experience what one veteran climber called "the feeling of release and mystic union upon reaching the goal." All climbers do not attain that experience. Last month, eight climbers were caught in a blizzard near the top and froze to death...