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  • n  a permanent magnet consisting of magnetite that possess polarity and has the power to attract as well as to be attracted magnetically

  • As his aides assert, however, Blair's religious beliefs make him a natural interlocutor for an American President for whom "moral clarity" is the lodestone of policy.
  • Familiar to almost every schoolboy is the Arabian Nights tale of the deadly lodestone island which drew the iron nails and bolts from passing ships, causing them to be wrecked on .
  • The rush for mercury in Arkansas last week was paralleled by a rush into Canada's Great Bear Lake region for radium, the modern transmuter's lodestone.
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Quotes

  • Shyam Benegal in CNN-IBN
    What was it that made him the Mahatma? What is the lodestone that he carried, that made him the person he was-that is what fascinated me,says Shyam Benegal, director of The Making of the Mahatma.
  • Richard Blumenthal in Danbury News Times
    The public's interest will be the lodestone,Blumenthal said at an HRRA meeting Friday. "It will be paramount."
  • Ken Hechler in Sherwood Voice
    Hechler said it was "almost as though it was drawn like a lodestone rock at the place where Buddy had trained as a Marine at Camp Pendleton before being sent to Iwo Jima."

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