Word: polarizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Republican Ellen Borden Stevenson, ex-wife of the Democrats' Standard Bearer Adlai Stevenson, hit her low boiling point in Chicago upon learning that burglars had ransacked her country house in Libertyville. Among the stolen items: a big polar-bear skin, stationery, a 300-lb. safe (empty). A couple of days later the phantoms struck again, but took nothing. Next night somebody tried to pry open the trunk of Ellen's car, parked in the estate's driveway. Now infuriated to the vaporization point, Mrs. Stevenson fired off to local newspapers a press release that conjured...
...affected by interstellar dust and gas that sometimes shut off much of the sun's light. The Ice Ages were caused partly by such shadowing, partly by the slipping of the earth's crust, which shifted now-tropical sections of the earth's surface into the polar regions...
...polar-cold morning of Jan. 28, 1945, 2nd Lieut. Jim Weis of the U.S. Army Air Forces scowled bleakly at his barbed-wire confines and remarked to some fellow P.W.s: "Maybe I'm dead and don't know it." For some 10,000 captured Allied airmen in Stalag Luft III. a German prisoner-of-war camp in East Prussia, hell began that night...
...finally set, despite the strong objection of almost every big U.S. airline (TIME, June 27). Under an agreement signed by the State Department, Lufthansa will get routes from West Germany to Chicago and the U.S. East Coast, and from there to the Caribbean and South America, plus a polar route to the West Coast. In return, TWA and Pan American will get the privilege of picking up passengers from six German cities for flights around the world. Snapped Florida's Senator George Smathers: "A thoughtless and completely unjustified giveaway...
Neher's party launched balloons that counted the particles at 95,000 feet as they plunged down the polar "chimney." The same thing had been done before, in 1951, without notable findings. On this occasion, the scientists found in the chimney no particles with energy so low that it would not carry them safely through the stronger parts of the earth's field...