Word: glaciered
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Beside an ice-blue lake deep in the glacier-scoured hills of central Quebec, spinning diamond drills last week probed and measured a great new underground treasure trove. In Chibougamau, 320 miles north of Montreal, the discovery of a vast deposit of copper ore has set off a lively boom in the wilderness and assured the free world an important new source of a scarce and strategic metal...
...desperate heat of the crowded South Carolina school auditorium, Staff Sergeant Matthew C. McKeon, U.S.M.C., seemed as cool and unmoving as a glacier. Under the glare of publicity unknown in a U.S. court-martial since Billy Mitchell's day, he sat silent among his seven whispering, paper-rustling defense lawyers. His bony hands were clasped, his gaunt face was impassive. To the right, in a jury box, were the seven members of the court-martial, six Marine officers and a Navy doctor. On the dais in front, the court's law officer, Navy Captain Irving Klein, surveyed...
...ancient one, but in the summer of 1956 it enchanted the travelingest, doingest, seeingest people on earth. They marveled at Yellowstone's Old Faithful geyser. They gasped at the grandeur of the Grand Canyon, at the fire falls cascading down the face of Yosemite's Glacier Point, at the stalactitic vastness of New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns. They agreed that there is nothing more beautiful than the Great Smokies when the rhododendron and the laurel are in bloom. They whispered in the cathedral silence of the towering rain forests of the Northwest. And they shivered a little...
Newly arrived from Antarctic waters, the Soviet whaling factory ship Slava and the U.S. icebreaker Glacier lay within hailing distance of each other last week alongside the broad quays of the Montevideo waterfront. Russian Captain Alexei N. Solianik paid a courtesy visit. He was gravely received on the quarterdeck by Rear Admiral George J. Dufek, got an illustrated lecture on the Glacier's part in Operation Deepfreeze, and a copy of R. B. Robertson's 1954 bestselling memoir. Of Whales and Men. On his way down the gangway, he invited the U.S. officers to pay a return visit...
...turn of the century in the rickety church at Yuruga, a town where "a person could be dead an only the flies would cotton on." Stan takes his bride to a shack deep in untracked wilderness, where the awesome stillness has not been violated since the last glacier crunched to a halt. Stan fells the giant trees, pries grudging boulders out of the earth, builds up his own herd of cattle...