Word: sandbars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Single-engined bush planes began heading north across the Brooks Range to the Yukon Flats the next morning. Peering out, passengers saw a frozen and desolate scene: a big black river wandering amid a lacework of sloughs, and empty leagues of snow and spruce. The planes landed on a sandbar, took off hurriedly after the muffled Argonauts had hauled their gear out into the sub-zero Arctic wind. More fares ($90 round trip, $50 one way for 165 miles) were waiting...
...Sandbar. In the Baltic, after very carefully checking some radar observations, Swedish Navy men dropped grappling irons, gingerly hauled up a case of fine old brandy...
trying to escape the restraining ministrations of reef and sandbar...