Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good thing that they hadn't-not that they were all upstanding citizens or that they were all devoted to work and family. But last week, as the headlines crackled with more sensational affairs, they were free to keep the country going-to iron its shirts, milk its cows, erect its steel and keep it generally on course...
...escape of Communist Kingpin Gerhart Eisler had made the U.S. Government hopping mad. Unable to lay hands on the little man who was snugly draped in the Iron Curtain, the U.S. Government last week did what it seemed to consider the next best thing: it staged a spectacular, two-day inspection of the Polish liner Batory, aboard which Eisler had stowed away. The announced purpose was to find out who had helped...
Rifles & Dynamite. As she was talking, a miner aimed a gun at her from a window outside. Her husband rushed to protect her; a bullet stopped him. Other miners fired; Tom O'Connor got 42 bullets in his body, was battered to a pulp with iron bars. U.S. Engineer Albert Krefting was also killed; Mrs. O'Connor was badly mauled before she escaped...
...Hyde Park, "I had no feeling that it belonged to me" because it was dominated by the President's iron-willed mother, Sara, who bossed everybody with a benevolent despotism and frequently overruled Eleanor Roosevelt's decisions. Waiting to move into the White House during the bank panic in 1933, Eleanor Roosevelt worried about getting enough money to scrape by. "[Franklin] smiled and said he thought we should be able to manage . . . I began to realize that there were certain things one need not worry about in the White House...
...steelmen met in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria last week for the American Iron & Steel Institute's annual convention, Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer, Harry Truman's good-will ambassador to U.S. business, brought them mixed tidings. For one thing, they were not alone in their doldrums; in April, Sawyer's economists had reported, the sales of all manufacturers slumped $1.2. billion from March to the lowest monthly total ($16.9 billion) this year. But Sawyer was optimistic : the gross national output, as he pointed out later in the week, was still running ahead of 1948, there...