Word: poled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, taking over the Polish army "as a Pole," Rokossovsky announced that one of its general orders would be to guard "the inviolability of the frontier [with Germany] on the Oder and Neisse." U.S. observers had several more or less plausible theories on why Rokossovsky had been sent to Warsaw: i) the Soviet army was going to be dramatically withdrawn from Germany, but it would now be able to dig in permanently in Poland, a short 50 miles from Berlin; 2) the previous heads of the Polish army were not reliable; 3) the way to prevent future Titos...
Ever since Admiral Robert Edwin Peary returned from his latest Arctic expedition in 1909, critics have disputed his claim to discovery of the North Pole. As late as 1929, long after Congress, the National Geographic Society and the encyclopedias had taken Peary's word for it, British Polar Scholar J. Gordon Hayes wrote a quarrelsome book to disprove that Peary had reached the Pole. Last week another critic...
...Manhattan, the Rev. Bernard R. ("The Glacier Priest") Hubbard disclosed that the U.S. Air Force recently took a "fix" of the North Pole with loran (longrange navigation) beams aimed from Alaska to intersect at the 90th meridian. Father Hubbard, who is serving as an Arctic consultant to Colonel Bernt Balchen's 10th Rescue Squadron, said that U.S. Air Force planes had circled the North Pole 300 times, taking photographs of the spot marked by the crossing electronic beams...
...Where the Pole should be," he announced, "there is only a nightmare jigsaw puzzle of ice floes ... I won't say it's impossible that Peary reached the actual Pole, but it's extremely improbable...
...Pole Worked in Berlin Ruins