Word: polarity
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...Gray, the polar opposite of a pageant personality, get into this in the first place? She says it began because of the scholarship money, but admits that now, she’s enjoying the ride...
...Triggered by an accidental ignition of one of the rocket's four engines, the catastrophe marks Brazil's third failed attempt since 1997 to become the first Latin American nation to launch satellites into space. High Seas Chase THE SOUTHERN OCEAN An Australian customs ship and a South African polar vessel were chasing a Uruguayan fishing boat late last week, aiming to board the trawler suspected of poaching prized Patagonian toothfish before it reached Uruguay. Uruguayan authorities ordered it to keep going, and dodging icebergs, the trawler sailed...
...Fearless Jones Novel, but the narrator-hero is actually a brainy and somewhat wimpy bookstore owner named Paris Minton. "I'm a small man," he tells us. "I've been chased, caught, and beaten by big-boned women." Fearless Jones, it turns out, is Paris' best friend and polar opposite: superhumanly strong, infernally lucky, ridiculously handsome and very, very good at beating people up. You might say Paris plays Watson to Fearless's Sherlock Holmes, if Holmes had been a jock instead of a nerd...
...about our exhibit, my appreciation for the flag’s versatility and endurance has actually increased. Looking at photographs of Klu Klux Klan marchers and civil rights marchers in Selma both carrying the flag truly makes me proud to live in a place where two groups with such polar views can have the freedom to appropriate the same national symbol for opposite messages. I marvel at a Navajo weaving of the flag by a woman whose people were once scorned by the government it represents...
...temperature that southern summer evening dipped to a balmy -3?C, and the perfect silence of the sky enveloped me like a blanket. It was then that I understood the quote by Apsley Cherry-Garrand, the 24-year-old member of Captain R.F. Scott's tragic 1910 expedition. "Polar exploration," he wrote, "is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has ever been devised." And what a beautifully, wonderfully bad time it still remains...