Word: glaciality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...joys: "You won't soon forget dawn high above the glacial labyrinth of crevasses; nor the ... gleam of sunrise flaming into a golden glow; nor the mist spiraling down fast like shreds of lace...
Mountains were John Muir's particular delight. Once he wrote: "I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer. . . . Civilization and fever & all the morbidness that has been hooted at me have not dimmed my glacial eye, & I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. My own special self is nothing...
...covered the area between Dawson Creek and Whitehorse while the second expedition, starting in May of 1944, explored the country between Whitehorse and Fairbanks. The members of the party included Raup, his wife, and their two sons, S. K. Harris of Boston University, John H. H. Sticht, glacial geologist, and Frederick Johnson, archeologist...
...glacial weather Dietrich peels off a half-dozen layers of G.I. greatcoats and woolies, usually slips on a gold-spangled white chiffon evening dress. She has learned not to stand too near the mike: it broadcasts her chattering teeth...
From good, grey Cordell Hull, Storm's letter wrung a masterpiece of glacial denunciation and bad judgment. Argentine nationalists raged at the insult. Storni resigned...