Word: poled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other places. Next step: sites for base camps would be selected, and sleds, dogs and scientists would be flown in for further exploration of the more promising bomb targets. Suggested base for the bomb-carrying planes: New Zealand-less than 6,000 miles round trip from the South Pole...
Back in the '20s, he mushed off on North Pole expeditions (he is called "Ange-kok," Miracle Worker, by the Eskimos); searched for pirates' gold on a Pacific island; sleuthed for old bones around Lake Superior; flew his own glider; raced his bouncing outboard down the Hudson; mined gold in Mexico. In his spare time, aboard his 185-ft. yacht, Mizpah, he held parties that rattled Chicago tongues...
Lincoln Ellsworth, 65, perennial polar explorer, was off again early in the first year of peace-perhaps the first robin of an old-fashioned explorers' spring. (Admiral Byrd had already begun to yearn aloud for the South Pole.) Explorer Ellsworth headed for the Rift valley volcanic areas in East Africa; after that, said he, would come the Antarctic again. "I just cannot keep away...
...first seven days, prosecution witnesses were heard: Canadian soldiers who had seen the shooting of fellow prisoners, former members of Meyer's regiment, some French civilians. Much of the testimony was conflicting, some inconclusive. One star witness, Jan Jesionek, a 19-year-old Pole who had been drafted into the German Army, told a damning story...
...drainage ditch dug with a pole over...