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Single-engined bush planes began heading north across the Brooks Range to the Yukon Flats the next morning. Peering out, passengers saw a frozen and desolate scene: a big black river wandering amid a lacework of sloughs, and empty leagues of snow and spruce. The planes landed on a sandbar, took off hurriedly after the muffled Argonauts had hauled their gear out into the sub-zero Arctic wind. More fares ($90 round trip, $50 one way for 165 miles) were waiting...
...could scarcely force the plea between his chattering teeth. He was glazed with sweat. ". . . His body assumed without shame the very shape of fear. In his cringing motions, however, there were indications of an extreme fineness of intellect, unfoldings of a lacework of perceptions, of associations, of interpretations, which made the Nazi-Fascists seem like hogs rooting among the simple unimproved beech-mast of the world. No matter how he stooped and wavered, out of his head proceeded mental patterns intricate and brilliant as the etchings of frost on a winter pane. Surely the others, the Nazi-Fascists, were...
...great lagoons of Kwajalein and Eniwetok, the sheltered roadsteads of Palau and Truk, all wrested from Japan, would provide fleet anchorages. Tying the whole lacework together would be air bases on such famous "rocks" as Iwo, Marcus and Wake. (Conceding that the airplane is here to stay, the Navy was careful to emphasize that all bases would have built-in air stations...
Eastward on the Adriatic, the British Eighth Army, which had actually been the first to break the Gothic Line (by capturing Rimini), was making slow prog ress across a lacework of canals and rivers. Home-front strategists who had talked of "debouching into the plain" with tanks had failed to consider these obstacles, failed to consider the skill and determination of Field Marshal Albert Kesselring's armies. German tanks were still able to counterattack. They contrived to drive the Eighth from a small bridgehead across the Fiumicino River swollen into a deep, swift torrent by steady rains...
...stones and in the bark of dead trees. But it has recently migrated to the city in prodigious numbers because of its fondness for a modern product: rayon. It also likes linen, starched cotton, flour. Unlike the moth, which feeds slowly, the silverfish is a ravenous eater, can make lacework of a shirtfront in a few hours. It is also very hard to starve out ; a well-stuffed silverfish can go as long as ten months without food. Recently an entomologist, having failed to get very far with poison, devised an ingenious silverfish trap: he put flour in a glass...