Word: poling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years before Roald Amundsen reached the South Pole, Admiral Robert E. Peary went in the opposite direction to the top of the world -- or so he said. Skeptics have long challenged his claim, contending that he never got closer to the pole than 89 km (55 miles) away...
...Navigation Foundation reviewed celestial positions and ocean-depth soundings marked in the logs, and even examined the shadows in photographs to calculate the angle of the sun and help fix the locations in the pictures. The conclusion: Peary made it to within 8 km (5 miles) of the pole, close enough to confirm his place in history...
Looking up at the man in the red suit, she says in a small voice, "You live in the North Pole sometimes...
...Polar Express, also a Caldecott winner, has appeared on best-seller lists in three Christmas seasons since its release in 1985. In this lovely tale, a boy wakes on Christmas Eve to find a train wreathed in steam below his bedroom window, waiting to take him to the North Pole and a meeting with Santa Claus. In all, the nine books Van Allsburg has published over the past decade have sold almost 2 million copies...
...freeway across the street and urged a friend not to drive to night school until after the rush hour. Minutes later, Reynolds felt "a ripple." Then a neighbor screamed a warning. He ran out of his shop to find "the whole goddam ground lifting up." He grabbed a telephone pole as the sidewalk buckled beneath his feet, and looked up at a horrifying sight. A mile-long section of the freeway's upper deck began to heave, then collapsed onto the lower roadway, flattening cars as if they were beer cans. "It just slid. It didn't fall. It just...