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The Northwest Territories/61.07 N 89.90 W/December 3 |
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There are times when fear drops below the threshold of the mind; never beyond recall, but far enough from the instant to become a background. Moments of great exaltation, of tremendous physical exertion, when activity can dominate over all rivals in the mind, the times of exhaustion that follow these great moments; there are occasions of release from the governance of fear. WYN GRIFFTTH, EX-ROYAL WELSH FUSILIER |
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Morgan felt the Hercules begin its long descent. Even at 41,000 feet, the turbulence had remained severe until the aircraft flew out of the cold front and its parade of line squalls marching across the continental United States and Canada. The front was only the first of several, driven by the winter jet stream. It was a weather pattern that assured a lethal distribution of radioactivity over the northeastern United States if the Russian warhead could not be defused. Morgan realized that he had begun to distance himself from the scene. It was a familiar feeling, one he always experienced in the face of imminent danger. |
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