Word: polarizing
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...disappointing to see an author write a book called Ideas and the Novel when the best she can manage to explain her theme is: "The nature of an idea, surely, is to be abstract i.e. the polar opposite of the concrete" or "a universal which we can ophosister according to our own taste and antiquarian knowledge...
...women tracksters' meet against Springfield Saturday in the ITT had a lot in common with the present nuclear arms race: great tension, much flexing of muscles, precarious shifts in balance, strategic exploitation of the opponent's weaknesses, not to mention the "polar" atmosphere outside. But this race had a final outcome, as the Crimson pulled out a last minute 55-50 victory over a surprised Springfield squad...
...years into the presidency, people not only were not calling him Jimmy, they were calling him Carter, almost always with a hard edge of distaste. Indeed, the entire history of this Administration may be read in the evolution from "Jimmy" to "Carter," one name, in a sense, being the polar opposite of the other. The first law of nicknaming, then, is that the term must arise from the heart, from some irrepressible popular urge to bring a public figure closer to the family bosom. Britain's Margaret Thatcher was aided immeasurably in her campaign by being known as Maggie...
Senior Sara Fischer struck first in this one-sided shootout, tallying the first of her two goals 12 minutes after the opening faceoff. Yardling winger Dianne Hurley slipped past the Polar Bear defense at the blueline, drew the other Bowdoin defender into the corner, and deftly centered to Fischer, who knocked the puck past net minder Liz Sherwood...
Vicki Palmer added the first of her pair at 16:45, flipping the puck into the crease from the right corner; the puck deflected off a Polar Bear blueliner into the net in the ensuing scramble. Moments later, last year's leading scorer Alex Lightfoot beat Sherwood from a seemingly impossible angle to give the Crimson a 3-0 first-period lead...