Word: polarizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everything Enormous. The country to which they were bound was Siberia. An area nearly twice the size of the U.S., stretching across the top of the globe from Europe to Alaska, bound by polar wastes in the north and the world's largest mountain ranges in the south, Siberia has potential mineral, agricultural and electric-power resources beyond calculation. But its winters are the coldest on earth. In the past, both Czarist and Soviet regimes have had to force people to live and work there. Tens of millions of hapless human slaves, cutting timber, tilling the bleak steppe...
...amuse an Eskimo friend in Washington, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, 57, got into a polar mood, hauled out a furry parka and seemed on the verge of heading north. For the first time in eight years, however, Globe-Trotter Douglas will stay around the U.S. this summer, possibly because he has run out of new terrains to conquer...
...newshawk in his party. But the billet has some apron strings attached to it. The extraordinary newshawk he wants will first have to earn a diploma from the New Zealand army's School of Cooking and Bakery-and then be man enough to slave through long polar days and nights over both a hot typewriter and a hot stove...
...Force is far from a phantom. It is one of the world's biggest businesses-in-being. And it is, as Air Force Secretary Donald Quarles characterized it last week, "the most powerful striking force ever assembled on earth." From its polar icecap outposts to its underground operations center in the Pentagon (where a general officer is always on duty), from the Strategic Air Command, run from Omaha by General Curtis LeMay, to the Tactical Air Command, headed by General Otto...
...Millie's dilemmas are overwritten and underfelt. But in Minnesota-born Author Cahill's book, old nature, and not young love, is topic A, and for his evocations of a wheat field un der hail, the dancing fury of the summer sun or the polar malice of a prairie winter, he almost earns an A in writing...