Word: igloos
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Gigot. Ugh. In the middle of the cellar sits a mighty peculiar pile of something. Could it be an igloo of grease? Or maybe a Volkswagen wearing pajamas? All at once a face comes out of it, and what a face! The features are covered with hair, the hair is covered with dirt. But just as the customers are about to scream, the monster waddles comically across the floor and revolves a massive iron wheel that looks as if it opened at least a sluiceway in Grand Coulee Dam. The pipe roars like Niagara, and from...
...machines with the strange, angular, functional grace of well-designed space craft. North American Aviation, Inc. showed a full-scale model of its giant F-1 rocket engine, which spits out more than 1,500,000 lbs. of thrust and whose tail cone is as large as an Eskimo igloo...
...variously with lust, greed, chronic childbirth, madness, lung surgery and death by water, gunshot, prolonged beating and Addison's disease. As it is customary for costume novelists to concern themselves also with a certain amount of factual information-the politics of Lorenzo's court, or the intra-igloo mores of Eskimos-Robinson acquaints his readers along the way with the history and techniques of the U.S. whisky industry from 1840 till Prohibition...
...polishes the surface by rubbing it with seal oil. Then, brow creased, the Eskimo feels the stone, lets its texture and shape tell him what design is in it. As he works, he depends more on feel than sight to guide him, because the seal lamps make an igloo's interior too smoky to see clearly. The temperature in the igloo is at best just above freezing, but he works with his bare hands...
...jukeboxes across the big, muddy, thawing Alaskan tundra last week, a top pop was Alaska, the Forty-Ninth Star, sung by Anchorage Entertainer-Bartender Freddie Beardon on the new Igloo label (made in Anchorage). And it came close to capturing the confidence and cockiness of Alaskans (We have riches untold-there's oil, fish and gold), hustling toward the greatest summer ever. Some northern high lights...