Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Having been a member of the 3rd Armored Division (Spearhead) prior to separation from active duty with the United States Army in September of 1958, I have my doubts about the effectiveness of Staff Sergeant Nolen's telephone report of trouble on the Iron Curtain border...
...policeman's son, slim, faultlessly tailored Financier Mattei in 14 years has built the state-owned ENI oil and gas monopoly from a stagnant relic of fascism into the nation's most powerful business enterprise, a sprawling empire that also makes soap and margarine and manufactures iron and steel. But Mattei has many enemies who dislike his contempt for private enterprise, resent his roughshod methods, and fear the considerable political power he wields as ENI's boss...
...after day in his briefings, Soviet Press Officer Kharlamov repeated his claim that the East Germans had been made full participants-implying diplomatic recognition by the West. On both sides of the Iron Curtain some news outlets accepted the line. Cried Radio Warsaw: "Victory for the U.S.S.R." Cabled Correspondent Mamoru Kikuchi to the Japan Times: "East Germany has won de facto recognition." Such was the effect of the Communist pitch that at one point U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter felt obliged to spell out the West's attitude toward the East German regime during a conference session, persuaded...
...immediate family. The record: after wrangling with her mother, her daughter Roberta and her fellow evangelists, Aimee died in her son Rolf's arms in 1944 as a result, said a coroner's jury, of taking "an accidental overdose" of sleeping pills. Three years later her iron-jawed mother died in her sleep...
...outset, Kerouac warns what he is up to: "The other night I had a dream that I was sitting on the sidewalk on Moody Street. Pawtucketville, Lowell, Mass., with a pencil and paper in my hand saying to myself 'Describe the wrinkly tar of this sidewalk, also the iron pickets of Textile Institute, or the doorway where Lousy and you and G.J.'s always sittin and dont stop to think of words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind off yourself in this work.' " Despite its irritating quality...