Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blazed for them with flags and dye markers dropped from the plane. Five walked; the sixth, more badly hurt than the rest, was drawn on an improvised sled to the water's edge, where another flying boat picked them up and flew them back to the tender Pine Island. Among them was the Pine Island's commanding officer, Captain Henry H. Caldwell, who had gone along for the ride. Behind them on the icy waste they left the bodies of the first three known Americans to die on the Antarctic continent. Their memorial: their names painted in bright...
...November 1944, Russia first asked Norway to share Spitsbergen with the Soviet Union, and to cede neighboring Bear Island outright. Trygve Lie, then Norway's Foreign Minister, refused. In April 1945, Russia tried again, suggested a joint regional defense system. Nothing came of that, either. At the U.N. Assembly last November, Foreign Minister Molotov reminded Norway's Foreign Minister Halvard M. Lange that Russia was still interested...
When the Spitsbergen story finally reached the press last week, it sent cold shivers down many a diplomatic spine. The State Department frigidly recalled that the 1920 treaty giving Spitsbergen and Bear Island to Norway had been signed by 30 nations, including the U.S. and U.S.S.R., and could not be amended (at least in theory) except by general consent. The treaty specifically prohibited military installations on the islands...
...called attention to the crash of an Eastern Airlines plane near Galax, Va., yesterday with the loss of 18 lives and to the emergency landing last week of an airliner on a Long Island, N. Y., beach...
...when the great, grave, bearded Charles Darwin was a bubbling young naturalist, he began his famous voyage on the Beagle. While crossing the South Pacific, he was fascinated by the ring-shaped coral islands, which he decided to call "by their Indian name of atolls." He wondered about those saucers of coral standing on steep-sided platforms above the deep ocean floor. Why their ring shape? How had they been formed? It was known that reef-building corals did not thrive more than a few fathoms below the surface. Certainly the islands had not grown upward from the depths...