Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foreseen-dust. Up till then, the 45 men in the expedition had endured unbelievably tough conditions in their 3,000-mile trek. Frequently the mercury dropped way out of sight (coldest day: 52° below zero). The ten snowmobiles floundered through miles of man-swallowing swamps; crossed ice-choked rivers in spring flood, like the Fort Nelson, on rafts; gingerly pushed their way across great chasms on improvised timber bridges...
...rest of Canada's coal, all used in industrial Ontario and Quebec, which have none of their own, is imported from the U.S., via the Great Lakes, in the seven ice-free months...
Spring came to interior Alaska with a crash, a splash and $108,000. As in 28 previous years, last week's icebreak on the Tanana (rhymes with Anna gnaw) River was big news. To the lucky sourdough or trapper who guessed the day, hour and nearest minute the ice went out would go a record $108,000. And like other big news, Alaskans knew they would hear it first from Fairbanks radio station KFAR, whose special events crew was camped at Nenana (rhymes with keen Anna), 150 miles south of the Arctic circle...
...snow had been melting as it fell and, about midafternoon, sun stabbed through the overcast. Behind Stevens' voice, listeners heard the babble of some 250 sourdoughs and Indians excitedly looking for signs of the breakup. Suddenly, like a carrier flight deck in heavy seas, the great mass of ice heaved and fell. A finger of water slithered across the ice and a moment later jagged, crashing floes crunched downstream. No radio audience had ever before heard anything like it. KFAR in its first coverage of the icebreak had scored again...
...Crimson stickmen led all the way except for a brief three minutes at the beginning of the last quarter when the score was tied. Ned Dewey and Bill Potter, however, each netted a quick goal at that time, and the game was on ice. Two minutes before the end, the Engineers scored their last goal when they intercepted a wild pass by a Crimson defenseman and drove in for a score but they still trailed by one point...