Word: polarizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rivets") in Ecclesiastes. So you say "they got no depth," right? You say there's no plot, right? You didn't get the Civil War bits mixed into the book. You liked the metaphors, but they were "out of place." Like the one--"My coffee was an albino polar bear--black and cold." Right...
...distant fixed stars and carefully measuring their apparent movement, scientists have determined that the North and South poles-the points at which the imaginary axis of rotation pierces the earth's surface-are continually on the move. Over the course of a year, they wander about the polar regions in roughly circular paths about 50 ft. in diameter...
...Schirra pulled to within a foot of the other spacecraft and held up a sign for Gemini 7's command pilot, West Point Graduate Frank Borman. It read: "Beat Army." Later, on the same flight, he reported that he had sighted "an object" going into polar orbit. "Stand by," said Schirra, "it looks like he's trying to signal us." He then whipped out a harmonica and began to play Jingle Bells. The UFO, of course, was Santa Claus...
...guided from the Goddard Space Flight Center at Greenbelt, Md. NASA scientists there had to perform a series of intricate maneuvers before they could call for the unreeling of the satellite's four main antennas. First they had to nudge the 417-Ib. satellite into a circular, near-polar orbit about 3,640 miles above the earth with precisely timed bursts of a small rocket called an apogee-kick motor. Tho operation evened out the varying gravitational tugs of the original elliptical orbit, which would have bent and distorted the antennas. Next, RAE-A's masters...
BARROW, ALASKA, July 12--The sun hasn't set here for the past two months, but the Arctic pack ice has only recently started to break in the waters surrounding this Navy research installation. Eight-hundred miles out on the ice, in an area usually populated only by polar bears, seals, and occasional gulls, four British explorers have set up a summer camp on a floe of old ice. They have been traveling for more than four months by dog sled...