Word: polarize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discovery of methanelike compounds on Mars, Kaplan believes, leaves only one important obstacle to life on the red planet: the apparent lack of water in liquid form. What little Martian water there is exists as polar-cap frost or vapor in the atmosphere; there are no oceans or even lakes similar to those in which the first terrestrial life evolved. "It would be a strenuous climate for life," says Kaplan, "but then not all life-even on earth-requires liquid water...
...from the bottom of the sheet have been found to be as much as 10,000 years old. The ice and the trapped air bubbles are also being analyzed for composition, organic and inorganic im purities, influences of climate and other characteristics that add up to a polar history of the earth over the past 100 centuries...
...sequel to another Aldridge novel, A Captive in the Land, about the same enlightened multimillionaire who had been made Hero of the Soviet Union after dragging a paralyzed Russian explorer to safety over an incredible distance of polar ice. Has he been brainwashed? The sinister Admiral Lille, chief of naval intelligence, seems to think so, and the reader may well decide, despite Aldridge, that the old sea dog is right. There is a great deal of top-level muckraking about the malevolent moral dwarfs who operate international finance-capitalism; it is possibly the least convincing stuff since Upton Sinclair...
August 1980. Perched on his polar-orbiting platform 200 miles above the earth, the Weatherman in the Sky begins a routine scan of the earth's surface. Beyond the green necklace of the Antilles, Hurricane Clytemnestra begins to collapse, shredded by a continuous aerial barrage of silver-iodide seeds from U.S. planes. The weatherman flashes Moscow that intense hail is due to fall on Irkutsk by early afternoon, and the Russians quickly send up rockets laden with chemicals, melting the hail before it lifts the wheat fields. As for more mundane matters, vacationers on Cape Cod will have...
...classical reasons for suspecting that life is in the dark somes is ambignous, Pollack paid. It is known that dark areas become darker in the spring, while the polar caps are evaporating. So, the old 'theory goes, this must be increased vegetation...