Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actually, shocked Montevideo had seen no more violence than Cuba and Venezuela saw when The Iron Curtain was shown in Havana and Caracas. But Uruguay is a republic where order and freedom of expression are part of the national creed.* Even the Uruguayan Communist party, which polled 4% of the votes at the last presidential election, has been accepted as a legal, peaceful political movement...
Before last week, orderly, freedom-loving Uruguayans had about persuaded themselves that their Communists were different. Then the U.S. movie, The Iron Curtain, story of the Soviet spy ring in Canada, came to Montevideo, and Uruguay's Commies broke the spell. About 200 of them turned up at Montevideo's Trocadero theater and made an unseemly rough house. They lobbed tar at the screen, dropped stink bombs, and smashed some seats. As dismayed citizens rushed for the exits, the police arrived, went after the demonstrators, carted off 70 prisoners. Finally order was restored. The citizens drifted back...
Brazil continued its policy of cracking down on Communists. São Paulo police called on the federal Justice Department last week to deport twelve citizens of Russia and other Iron Curtain countries who had been arrested for passing out illegal pamphlets. The twelve were described as "skilled spies with great experience in this field." The pamphlets, added the police, came from Montevideo...
...object of their veneration is enshrined in a white stone building in the Pare de St. Cloud. When the pilgrims have filed down three flights of basement stairs, they will be confronted by two iron doors. Behind those doors, in a massive concrete vault, lies the object...
Chip Gannon was the other man who Stood out in the backfield. He contrived a series of gainers, including the scoring run, and might have really gone wild except for the work of Captain Dale Armstrong at end and George "Iron Man" chreek backing the line. These two were poison to Crimson backs all afternoon...