Word: parka
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bulky, parka-clad man paused in the hatch of the transport plane and reached back for the duffel bags handed up by a friend. In them were some of his most prized possessions: dozens of tape recordings of South Pacific music, Beethoven sonatas, harp solos. The big man waved goodbye. "See you in 1958," said Paul Siple, 47, a geographer and polar explorer from Arlington, Va. Then he flew off from the U.S. Navy base at McMurdo Sound in the antarctic for a 14-month stay at the most isolated community on earth...
According to Clapp, the system has not always worked perfectly. At first, he had to do push-ups to stay awake, and had trouble falling asleep when he went to bed. He also complains that in the early morning he has to wear a parka because there is no dormitory heat after midnight...
...amuse an Eskimo friend in Washington, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, 57, got into a polar mood, hauled out a furry parka and seemed on the verge of heading north. For the first time in eight years, however, Globe-Trotter Douglas will stay around the U.S. this summer, possibly because he has run out of new terrains to conquer...
...skin. Eskimo clothes are designed to capture and hold warm air. The loose fur trousers fit snugly over the boots. No cold air can rise up the legs to replace air that has been warmed by the body. Over the trousers the Eskimo wears a windtight fur parka with the skin side outside and no opening in front. It has a hood and it fits closely around his neck. Nearly all the air that has been warmed by his body stays where it was warmed...
When the Eskimo feels too warm, as he frequently does even in very cold weather, he loosens his parka at the chin and lets some of his bubble of warmth escape. If he has to sit out a blizzard in the open, he pulls his arms out of the sleeves and folds them across his naked chest as additional heat-generators.' He wears no underclothes, of course. They are not necessary, says Stefansson. and about all they do is add weight and collect moisture...