Word: norseman
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...Norseman plane landed last week in the Albany River where it empties into bleak James Bay. A man carrying a sheaf of papers went ashore with the pilot and walked toward a line of unpainted shacks and squalid tents on-the river bank. Huskies, chained to stakes around every dwelling, set up a howl. Ragged Indian children left their baseball game on the muskeg to crowd around the strangers...
...lived largely by agriculture; the Norse raised sheep in Greenland, where no sheep graze today. After 1300, the cold crept down and the Icelanders gave up farming. The Greenlanders were exterminated, perhaps by starvation, perhaps by glacier-fleeing Eskimos. Now that the tide has turned, Dr. Ahlmann, a good Norseman, hopes the warm cycle will last for at least a few centuries...
...week's end the Newfoundland wilderness had claimed its third wrecked airplane in three weeks. Two men were injured, one missing after a U.S. Army single-engined C68 Norseman crashed on a flight between St. John's and Gander. The wreck brought the total of U.S. commercial crashes since Jan. 1 to ten. Total dead...
When night came, the tall, blue-eyed Norseman put on spectacles and a false black beard. Quietly he slipped past the guards of his isolated cottage "prison" and made his way to Oslo, twelve miles away. There, night after night, within a stone's throw of Gestapo headquarters, he presided at secret meetings of the Norwegian State Lutheran Church...
...Norwegian refugee now training in Canada with the Royal Norwegian Air Force and keeping his surname secret lest his family be punished: the U.S. ski-jumping championship; with a score of 230.2 points; dethroning Defending Champion Torger Tokle, another Norseman; before a crowd of 12,000; at Duluth, Minn. Tokle, who outjumped Ola but could not match his flawless form, has, since coming to the U.S. three years ago, captured 35 out of 39 tournaments, set 19 hill records, jumped 288 ft., a U.S. record...