Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lively attention. He was picketed by left-wingers in Manhattan, but to most U.S. citizens he was still a brave and oaklike figure-the man who, in Fulton, Mo. on his last visit to the U.S., had called-dramatic attention to the strategy of the U.S.S.R. and given the Iron Curtain its name. He was saluted everywhere with instant, affectionate and reminiscent applause...
...center of the excitement was the delegation from Russia and the Iron Curtain countries of Europe. Their boss and director was ruddy, narrow-eyed Alexander Fadeev, political boss of Soviet writers, who is reputed to be an MVD official assigned to the part of an intellectual in search of peace. Their showpiece-and the only visitor of major stature-was Composer Dmitri Shostakovich. A shy, stiff-shouldered man with a pale, wide forehead, Shostakovich was painfully ill at ease. To the repeated ovations he received he ducked his head abruptly again & again, like a small boy after a commencement speech...
...Iron Curtain...
...charge that the Pact is another dart thrown into Russia's side which may elicit a similar diplomatic maneuver behind the Iron Curtain is unfortunately valid. But the value of the Pact in removing small nations' fears for survival among powerful neighbors compensates for this difficulty...
After wartime service in Africa, ex-Lieut. Colonel Lansdell K. Christie heard about Liberia's "Devil Mountain," a rich lode of iron ore in the Bomi Hills. Business-wise Christie, who had made a small fortune operating a barge line in New York, went back to Liberia after he was demobilized. He wangled a concession from the Liberian government to mine the mountain area, where ore assayed 68% iron (average in the Mesabi Range...