Word: ironbound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...road and waving a sawed-off shotgun at Billy Hodges' stagecoach. "If they dare to shoot, give them a solid volley, boys," Black Bart shouted toward the rocks alongside the road. Driver Hodges, able to see half a dozen gun barrels covering him, eagerly threw down the green, ironbound Wells Fargo treasure chest. Next day an investigating party discovered that the "guns" Driver Hodges had seen among the rocks were only sticks...
Vargas, who began his presidency as a social reformer, soon moved toward dictatorship. Before he was through, he was ruling by decree, had established an ironbound press censorship, and jailed his critics. Three times Dutra saved Vargas from overthrow. He got his reward. By 1935, he was a General of Division; the next year, Minister...
...brought down by a collapsing home front. That could never happen this time; Führer Adolf Hitler had taken measures. Yet this week Hitler was face to face with another of the savage ironies of history: the great German Army was showing signs of caving in. Would the ironbound Nazi home front be betrayed and brought down in 1944 by a collapsing, demoralized Wehrmacht...
...were neither surprised nor greatly disturbed by his militarism and lack of interest in Allied victory. But the State Department's hostile analysis (suppressed for 24 hours, then defiantly given top play in the newspapers) worried them a bit. Protected from foreign criticism by a shield of ironbound censorship, the average Argentine had been left to believe that outsiders loved Argentina. Now, for some undisclosed reason, he was given a glimpse of the truth...
...Hood Rubber Co.'s series "How To Make Your Rubber Footwear Last Longer." Like many a British wartime advertisement, this one mixed humor with solid advice. A cartoon showed two armed guards toting a padlocked, ironbound chest into a house; the housewife was calling upstairs: "It's the men with your galoshes, dear...