Word: polarizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the first face-off, the match should be a classic contrast between Bowdoin's experience and Harvard's youth. The Polar Bears from Brunswick will start six seniors tonight including wing Ed Fitzgerald, named to the UPI All-New England Small College Team last season...
...Ohio, Beatty raised rabbits, guinea pigs and skunks as a boy, at 15 responded to the lure of the circus by signing up as a $3-a-week helper. His goal was to be an acrobat, until he twisted an ankle, got a chance to fill in on a polar bear act ("a bear will bite you ten times to a big cat's one"), and began his career as an animal trainer...
Chief villain is the standard maniac in uniform-in this case a sensible-sounding but psychopathic U.S. Navy officer named James William Geraghty, commander of a nuclear submarine that is submerged under 50 ft. of polar ice when the big blowout comes on Christmas, 1965. When Geraghty finally surfaces, he finds himself on top: every higher-ranking officer is dead. After using machine guns to quell a rebellion by U.S. survivors who get it into their heads to elect a civilian government, he sets himself up as World Leader, or Commander-1. In his brave new science-fiction world...
...answer was no, he would not. Bundy, who can chill a polar bear with his codfish-cold scorn, replied that his schedule was crowded; besides, he could hardly accept "an invitation given on ten days' notice." There were, however, a few points he wanted to impress on the scholars. Wrote he, in his icy reply...
Actually, snow blindess is not blindness and isn't caused by snow. Correctly called solar photophthalmia, it is sunburn of the sun's ultraviolet rays off the glistening snow or ice. While generally affecting the unprepared skier, snow blindness is not unknown among mountain climbers, the Eskimos, and even polar bears...