Word: trappers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picks his men for one chief quality: ability to live for long periods off the barren Alaska land, subzero blasts to mosquito-clotted summer mugginess. Their physical endurance is far beyond the ordinary soldier's; one Scout walked 90 miles over corrugated tundra in three days. Scouts use Trapper Nelson packs instead of the Army's steel-framed rucksack, shun Army K and C rations for dehydrated beef and other foods which weigh less. A Scout's greatest fear is that he may fall through the ice, numb his hands so that he is unable to strike...
...Rule 4. His wife, who was his college sweetheart, is handsome, alert, good-humored. She dresses smartly without inspiring envy, dabbles at painting and playing the piano, works earnestly as nurse's-aide chairman. Their twelve-year-old son is a personable youngster who yearns to be a trapper...
...mosaics. For while Russia's leaders have long preached and practiced sacrifice in the name of their country and their ideas, they have always striven to keep before the people some great symbol, beautiful and useful, so that any shawl-swathed peasant woman, any unshaven, fur-clad Siberian trapper could come to Moscow, stare openmouthed in admiration, and then return and tell her village, his people: "This is what we are building for everyone...
...wagon in Montana while his parents were on the trail, he was a working cowhand till a bucking horse injured him, threw him into writing. His mother died when he was a year old, his father was killed by a steer when he was four, and a French-Canadian trapper adopted him and raised him in the wilderness of northwest Canada...
...moss back, over the ice, put a corduroy planking on top and let nature freeze a solid roadbed. Pushing out of Whitehorse and Slana, one group paused briefly one afternoon on the shore of Kluane Lake at the foot of 19,000-foot peaks. Beside the log cabin of Trapper Hayden and his half-breed Indian wife the Engineer band played. A young private rose and sang the marching song of the road: Squaws along the Yukon Are Good Enough...