Word: greenland
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...Cross and took it farther than it had been carried before-in the Crusades, with the expansion of the Latin empires in America, finally in the great 19th century advance of Protestant missions, when eager young ministers streamed out of U.S. seminaries, hungry to save the heathen "from Greenland's icy mountains, from India's coral strand." They accomplished mighty works, particularly in hygiene and education; many of today's new African leaders were educated at mission schools...
PORTABLE ATOMIC REACTOR, lightest of its kind, will be installed by U.S. Army in Greenland. Weighing 310 tons, unit will produce heat and lights for 100-man base, run for a year on one planeload of uranium...
...never see their alma mater, and her football games come out of the radio. But last week more than 13,000 University of Maryland undergraduates began a new semester as eagerly as if they were back in College Park. Their campus is global, stretching from frigid Thule in Greenland to burning Dhahran on the Persian Gulf. Stationed at U.S. bases around the world, the students are members of Maryland's booming Overseas Program for American servicemen. Just ten years old, the program may be having as much impact on U.S. education as the invention of the junior college...
...Empire State Building, Author Condon falters as he battles both cold-war antagonists simultaneously. But in his comic set pieces, he is wickedly skillful. The book's most memorable incident reveals the true story of the Senator's battle scar. Stationed in Greenland, far from the smell of gunpowder but also far from any American women, the legislator-to-be seeks out the sealskinned houris of an Eskimo camp. A fight starts, and an impassioned maiden, fearful of not getting her share, gnaws him lustfully on the foot. "I guess that...
...Word for Man. Inuktitut's literary fare is beamed straight at igloos from Aklavik to Frobisher Bay: an account by Idlout, an Eskimo from Resolute Bay, of a visit to Greenland (he was charmed by the girls); a section on Eskimo haute couture (which made the telling point that the Eskimo will freeze in the white man's garb); even two blank pages -"something to write on" - for readers who live in an area where paper is a rare and treasured commodity...