Word: sledding
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...they got directions by signal light to walk to the nearest open water, eight miles away. A trail over the ice was blazed for them with flags and dye markers dropped from the plane. Five walked; the sixth, more badly hurt than the rest, was drawn on an improvised sled to the water's edge, where another flying boat picked them up and flew them back to the tender Pine Island. Among them was the Pine Island's commanding officer, Captain Henry H. Caldwell, who had gone along for the ride. Behind them on the icy waste they...
...coast. Their needs are few: cod, salmon, trout and seabirds for food, seal for their blubber lamps. They neither wash nor cook, and they have no need for roads. The sea is their kayak highway in summer; during the long winter, transport by husky-drawn komatik (sled) is fast and cheap...
Campbell was nowhere near so adventurous when, during a visit at an Eskimo camp, he was offered a wife for the night. That offer (rejected) illustrates his theme: "The Eskimo is communistic-he shares everything. He shares his sled, his dogs and his wife. He does not explain life. He lives...
...breakfast (canned grapefruit juice, canned butter, toast made from bread which Bell baked himself, canned bacon, powdered eggs and coffee) and cleaning up afterwards; of replenishing the coal supply and providing water from blocks of lake ice; of serving Eskimos who mush in from trapping posts by komatik (dog sled...
Danny sang it for the first time one night in February 1940, in La Martinique, a Manhattan basement nightclub. He was an immediate hit, not only because he was funny singing in Russian dialect, but also because he puckishly suggested that he, too, could be a tree, a sled, or anything his comic imagination wanted...