Word: ironical
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...weak magnetic field (only 1% as strong as the earth's) and an extremely thin atmosphere of helium, argon and perhaps other gases (less than 0.1% as dense as the earth's). Although the earth's magnetic field is generally attributed to the churning of molten iron in the spinning planet's core, Mercury seems to rotate much too slowly to produce such a dynamo effect. But scientists offer alternative explanations. Mercury's magnetic field may be created externally by bombardment of charged particles from the sun hitting the atmosphere-or it may be left...
...modern man can be transferred from products to services, to education, to health care, to the arts. But Heilbroner cannot imagine these things being done voluntarily or without the "payment of a fearful price," particularly in freedom. Democracy, he suspects, is not up to the job, only " 'iron' governments" that are "capable of rallying obedience." Does this mean that an authoritarian state, the worst alternative only a few years ago, has become the best alternative today...
...April 3 you will see the silent majority express itself" Albert L. "Dapper" O'Neil, Boston city councillor, said yesterday. "Construction workers, truck drivers, iron workers and mothers--we are going to be heard...
...tournament committee last year passed an iron-clad rule that a player arriving more than 15 minutes late to a match would automatically forfeit, Barnaby said...
Fogel, the son of an immigrant sign painter and a halfwit shopgirl, is born in London and drifts through childhood and adolescence preoccupied with his special powers. He believes he can become what he observes-objects made of stone, iron, wood, glass. "The god he wanted to reach wasn't interested in words. Only in achieved states. Palpable transformations. He would be known only by those who had gone through them." Fogel's crowning obsession is the diamond. Acquiring some through a friendly burglar, he becomes a fanatical student of facets and crystallography, of refraction angles and cleavage...