Word: poled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hovering helicopters dumped bright flowers on the dented and travel-worn U.S. nuclear submarine Sargo last week as it churned back to its Pearl Harbor home base after a 6,000-mile round trip to the North Pole. When Sargo's boyish skipper, Lieut. Commander John H. Nicholson, 35, told his tale, it was clear that the warm welcome was hard earned by cold courage...
Early on the morning of Feb. 9, Sargo's sophisticated SINS (for Ship's Inertial Navigation System) picked out the Pole. Up poked the sub's massive sail, i.e., superstructure, lifting with it a three-foot layer of ice. Crewmen axed through the ice, climbed down a ladder, found by celestial navigation check that they had scored a bull's-eye-the Pole was only 25 yards away. Electronics Technician Second Class Harold ("Pineapple") Meyer marched to the Pole, planted a candy-striped pole on the spot, and hoisted the state flag of Hawaii. While other...
Resting up at Victoria Falls. Billy was asked by a British movie company filming a life of Missionary-Explorer David Livingstone to ride by the crocodile-infested Zambezi River in a Livingstone-style litter of poles borne by four natives. "I've been trying to keep my weight down," Graham explained later, "but I was too much for one of the bearers, who buckled and broke his pole. I came within an inch of joining the crocodiles...
...Proving that U.S. submarines can sail at any time of year to the top of the world, within easy Polaris range of Russia, the nuclear sub Sargo slipped hundreds of miles under the fierce Arctic ice pack to the North Pole. The fourth U.S. submarine voyage to the Pole, it was the first made in the dead of winter. Sargo chose the tougher western route (more than 4,200 nautical miles from Hawaii through the Bering Strait to the Pole), bucked the worst ice of the year (average thickness: 6 ft.), sailed under the pack for almost 15 days, surfaced...
...reunite to form normal molecules. When the long darkness of winter creeps over the north polar region, an area of abnormally low pressure develops at 30 to 40 miles elevation. It sucks air down from above, and with the air come oxygen atoms that were brought to the pole by the circulation of the high atmosphere. The air is compressed by sinking down, the atoms get closer together, and many of them manage to combine into molecules. The process gives off heat, which Dr. Kellogg thinks is responsible for the winter warmth of the high polar atmosphere...