Word: polarizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have been spotted by conventional means. But neither Tiros nor any other weather observer has ever been able to make regular and thorough weather observations of the poles, where scientists believe major influences on the world's weather originate, the major deserts or the southern oceans. From its polar orbit, Nimbus will do all this-and more...
...teaching, and Farrell and such hesitant early experimenters as William Dean Howells cleared away a good deal of literary rubbish by writing the way they did. But merely taking the farthest possible position from romanticism is not a way to arrive at a philosophy of writing. Each of these polar views is too limiting. In a romantic novel, the hero always wins when he rolls the dice; in a Farrell novel, he always craps...
...like Christmas at Splinter Stadium yesterday. The weather would have chilled a polar bear, and Harvard's baseball team played Santa Claus with a bag of gifts that included five errors. When the festivities were over, Boston College found itself in possession of a 9-6 victory...
...oxygen motor, and a speaking machine "capable of pronouncing the Lord's Prayer, the Creed and Ten Commandments in the Vulgar Tongue." To improve the British climate, he suggested that the navies of the nations of the Northern Hemisphere band together to push the ice masses of the polar regions into the southern oceans. He was the founder of the famed Lunar Society, consisting of a group of scientific eccentrics whose habit of meeting by the light of the full moon, reputedly so that they could see their way home after dinner, eventually gave rise to their well-earned...
...birth, it was tucked inside a small canister perched atop a Thor-Agena B rocket booster. Launched from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base, Echo II rocketed into a polar orbit 642 to 816 miles above the earth. As it sped toward Madagascar about an hour after launch, the canister popped open, releasing the sturdy skin of the balloon, composed of two layers of aluminum foil laminated to a sheet of plastic. The warm rays of the sun began to vaporize chemicals inside the satellite, expanding it to its full 135-ft. diameter...