Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME covers were chosen because they were the only form in which so many pictures of world personalities were available. Czechs see very few pictures of world personalities these days. All they see are behind-the-Iron-Curtain personalities. The exhibit drew more crowds than ever before. We're not going to protest because this is the kind of minor day-to-day trouble you have running an American library in this part of the world. I'd have to be making protests every other...
...dumpling flavor-sugary, smooth as butter, pastry-thin in plot and heavily spiced with Bronxisms. What keeps this confection from cloying is Author Berg's tart recognition of human frailties and her blunt but understanding sense of humor. Besides writing, co-directing and bossing her show with an iron will, Gertrude Berg plays Molly, the Goldberg matriarch, with a full complement of shrugs, flutters, malapropisms and a passionate capacity for making something dramatic of the commonplace...
...seven years ago, the University of Notre Dame campus experienced the nearest thing to an earthquake it had known in 107 years of history. By order of suave, iron-willed Football Coach Frank Leahy, the revered Notre Dame shift, perfected by the great Knute Rockne and immortalized by such Notre Dame heroes as Christy Flanagan and the Four Horsemen, was unceremoniously junked. To replace it, Leahy wheeled in the T-formation...
...thus insulting Mom and Home Cooking, Columnist Coates last week was paying a heavy price. More than 260 readers had flooded the Mirror with letters challenging Coates to take potluck at their homes, and vowing to make him eat humble pie. A man with a cast-iron stomach and an eye for a circulation chart, Coates accepted most of the 260 invitations and offered prizes for the tastiest meals...
Nowadays, U.S. Trappists sleep on boards covered with straw mattresses, follow an iron waking schedule of hard labor, utter silence, arduous prayer and slim rations that begins at 2 a.m. and ends...