Word: ices
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Florida court last week there was a different Fifth Amendment situation. Leo Sheiner, a Miami attorney and World War II chief counsel for OPA's milk, cream and ice-cream section, invoking the Fifth Amendment, refused to say whether or not he was a Communist. From Sheiner's refusal Circuit Judge Vincent Giblin drew conclusions that might help to clarify a lot of public confusion about what the Fifth Amendment is and is not supposed to do. Ordering Sheiner's immediate disbarment, Judge Giblin said...
...Roch (TIME, Aug. 2), commanded by Mountie Superintendent Henry A. Larsen, in 1942 became the first vessel to make the passage from west to east. But both Amundsen and Larsen sailed through Prince of Wales Strait, detouring around the broader, more direct but more northerly western exit: fog-shrouded, ice-choked McClure Strait...
...Atlantic Ocean; the Burton Island sailed through the Prince of Wales Strait from the west and turned around Banks Island to push westward again through McClure Strait (see map); the Northwind pushed eastward from the Arctic Ocean. Both ships used helicopters to scout the best passage through the ice. Unusually heavy melting of barrier ice eased the passage; even so, the big 269-ft. icebreakers cut and crushed their way through ice four to ten feet thick...
...cliff to a wide and treacherous snow field. Suddenly Neal disappeared. "I was walking on some wet rock," he remembered later, "when I slipped and fell into a 75-ft. crevasse." Hastily the climbers lowered a rope. The end caught in a cranny beyond Neal's reach. Ice water trickled into Neal's upturned face. Three-quarters of an hour passed and still he could not reach the rope. Then Tony Levy told the others to lower him into the crevasse. He got a rope around Neal and the men above finally managed to haul Neal...
...Survey team, the specimens included mites, dragonfly nymphs, fairy shrimps. Almost all were perfectly preserved, showed only minute differences from their modern counterparts. One scientific explanation of bugs' slow evolution: more adaptable to climatic change than mammals, insects have rarely been found to change their bodies to survive ice ages and warm spells...