Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nearly two years Tito's men hunted their arch-enemy General Draja Mihailovich through the crags and ravines of the Bosnian mountains. Early in the winter they discovered his snowbound hideout, kept him on ice until the thaw, then pounced. Last week Tito's Government triumphantly announced that they had captured the bushy-bearded, bespectacled Chetnik leader sitting in a mountain cave, guarded by only eleven soldiers of his once-powerful army...
...terms of the gamble had long been set by law and custom: no seals, no pay. The risk is great. The rafting ice might shear off a rudder or propeller, or jam the ship so long it would miss the main patch of seals. But the adventure still thrills the hardy Newfoundland fishermen...
They know that each spring, without fail, the harp seals (so called from their harplike back markings) swim to meet the Arctic ice floes, honeycomb them with blowholes, whelp near the holes in late February. In three weeks, the ravenous young cats weigh about 70 pounds, are prime young "whitecoats...
Once in the patch, the slaughter begins. A sharp blow on the nose with the gaff kills the seal, a few deft strokes of the knife and the pelt is sculped off. All day long the killing goes on; the ice runs red with blood. At night the crewmen trudge back to cramped quarters aboard ship for a meal of seals' flippers, a mug of black tea. Then a night's sleep, fully clothed, a breakfast of "fish and brewis" (boiled hardtack), and off on the ice again. In a good day a sealer can sculp 120 seals...
...Valley of Mexico. He believes that the valley was covered by a high-level lake during the prehistoric rainy spell. If this is true, there should be beach formations high up on the slopes, and Dr. de Terra may find more proof of human activity in Mexico's Ice...