Word: polarity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ministry of the Interior, the paper was painstakingly analyzed, determined to be of Russian manufacture. The message: "Many messages but no hope. For 13 years we have been working as slaves in mines. These men have slit eyes. One dies like a dog. We are in the Polar Arctic. We are 300 Italian soldiers from Salara, Friuli, Verona, Padua, Rovigo. God is our hope of salvation...
...laid out in Manhattan, the wristwatch advertisement showed a model, one Pete Jarman, in a false beard impersonating an antarctic explorer who had found the watch just the thing for polar expeditions. It was good, hard-selling copy of the Hathaway eyepatch school. And sell it did when the ad appeared a fortnight ago in Havana newspapers. Grinning and snickering, Cubans quickly bought out the local dealer's whole stock. But in spite of the ad's success, further publication was hastily suspended. Reason: Jarman-in-a-beard was a dead ringer for Fidel Castro, the tenacious rebel...
...fight against Ghengis Khan. I said that Nanook had to organize a cavalry to meet Ghengis Khan's horsemen. His army rounded up a herd of polar bears and harnessed them to carts. Some of the girls were pretty skeptical about this, so I told them how hard it was to train polar bears. 'Once they got going, though,' I said, 'all hell couldn't stop them...
...them and when I mentioned the names of one or two professors working on the translation they practically worshipped me. Intellectually, you might say I was God around the hotel. I would be sweeping, you know, and some girls would come over and ask me about Nanook, or the polar bear cavalry, or the ice cities. It was great--but then one of them found out that Eskimos couldn't write...
Following the long antarctic night, the sun rose over the U.S. base at the South Pole last week, and Polar Explorer Paul Siple (TIME cover, Dec. 31, 1956) led 17 scientists and servicemen into the open for the reveille that comes there technically only once every six months. With the temperature at a numbing -88° and an 18-knot wind blowing across the polar wastes, the ceremonial hoisting of Old Glory turned out to be about the most frenzied since the famed planting of the flag under fire at Iwo Jima...