Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Siple's quarters, to the accompaniment of recorded harp solos, and out on the trail. Once, caught on a ledge above McMurdo Sound in a howling gale, Siple recalled that a member of the first Scott expedition (1901-04) had been blown to his death from that very spot. "Look," the explorer shouted, "there's his cross." By the time Rees was ready to leave McMurdo Sound for home, and Siple for the Pole, where he will stay 14 months, the explorer jokingly remarked: "Now you know as much as I do about what has to be done...
...devoid of feature or contrast. This is a whiteout, and in it, pilots may become dizzy and nauseated as they grope blindly for a surface which can vanish even as they come in for their landing. On the ground, in a whiteout, a man cannot tell whether a dark spot ahead is a distant mountain-or a matchbook cover on the snow 50 ft. away. When he looks down he may see his feet but not the surface that he stands on. And when the winds finally sweep the milky film away, they can drive the granular snow so furiously...
...Erie, Pa. had centered around Scouting (he had earned 60 merit badges before joining Byrd), he was jolted but not defeated by the salty, four-letter expletives and the sloppy, earthy habits of his hardbitten shipmates on the way south. Big. strong, self-sufficient, Paul ignored them, won a spot as a regular deckhand, shoveled as much coal, scraped as many barnacles, and demonstrated as sound seamanship as any man aboard...
...Hungary and calling upon it to make "immediate arrangements" to withdraw its forces under U.N. supervision and permit "the re-establishment of the political independence of Hungary." spot survey of Hungarian refugee problems. Visiting the U.N., Nixon praised the U.N.'s handling of the Hungarian and Middle East crises as a "fine diplomatic achievement." As for Hungarian relief, said he, the U.S. and the U.N. "may have to raise their sights." Within 48 hours the White House...
...true, is the fact that Hopper, at 74, expresses the present moment of American life with all the vigor and attachment of youth. The tradition he practices has nothing to do with convention. It involves no set approach, and never stoops to slavish copying. Hopper seldom sketches on the spot; he has not painted an oil direct from nature in 15 years. What he shares with the other great realists in American painting history is a heartfelt regard for the here and now, together with an overmastering desire to understand it intimately and express it clearly...