Word: glacially
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hunters who lived 10,000 years ago. Shay went bone-hunting with Jerry Ainsworth, a student at Eastern New Mexico College. Near a small stream called Blackwater Draw, they found the skeleton of a "dire wolf," a husky, toothy, carnivorous beast that died out toward the end of the glacial period...
...sport. Conversely, defeat lays bare a man's most homicidal instincts. Legend has it that after a chess game a prince of Bavaria was brained by a son of the King of France. Reshevsky appears impervious to these emotional tides. He is both admired and detested for his glacial self-control. "He acts as though he can save any game, no matter how hopeless the position," complained one master bitterly...
...adolescent brother & sister whose deep affection for each other is colored with inevitable tragedy. Adapted by France's Jean Cocteau from his 1929 novel, Les Enfants Terribles, The Strange Ones is a baroque, grotesque, always fascinating excursion into a dark-bright dream world, set off by a glacial commentary delivered in the author's own dry, precise voice...
...Thomas E. Jessett, vicar of a Seattle Episcopal chapel, took the phone call himself: his son Arthur, 20, a University of Washington junior, was trapped in a glacial crevasse on 9,671-ft. Mount St. Helens. The vicar's response: "You have to take risks when you climb mountains. I guess this is one of them." Then he added: "He'll want us there...
Greenland's glacial blanket, explains Dr. Nye, tends to spread out and flow downhill because of its own weight. But this movement is balanced by the rock floor compressed under centuries of ice and snow. Some ice is lost in summer's melting and in icebergs that break off to sea. But the big glacier is refreshed with snow slowly hardening into more ice. It is this almost perfect equilibrium that Dr. Nye describes in his complicated formulas. Having written the equations, the lab-locked explorer then works backward, calculating ice depth from surface contours...