Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cover, with the Big Four of that time-Eisenhower, Eden, Faure and Bulganin-has been signed by the first three men. But, with that prize collection of signatures on it, Colonel Carter doesn't dare send it to Bulganin. Other issues sent behind the Iron Curtain for autographs have not been returned...
...Central Europe the cold war entered another phase. On Communism's side of the Iron Curtain Stalin had died, plunging the Kremlin into years of medieval intrigue while Nikita Khrushchev emerged as new dictator. On the allies' side, the phenomenon was the emergence of Western Europe, through Marshall Plan recovery and its own industry, as a hopeful, prospering showcase of what free men could do. At Budapest, in October and November 1956, Hungarian freedom fighters, workers, students, soldiers proved the Communist puppet government to be a hollow sham, reveled in five days of freedom, looked...
...certainly in the best interests of both the United States and the Soviet Union to arrange a test ban of this nature and enforce it--not only here and in Russia, but in those countries on both sides of the Iron Curtain which will soon be developing nuclear weapons and wanting to test them. The danger, it would seem, lies in the possibility that if this compromise measure were adopted it would be that much harder to do away with nuclear testing altogether. It is to be hoped that Eisenhower's proposal will prove not only a much-needed first...
Norm Shepard's varsity baseball team, which has been having early-season pitching problems of late, will be trying to iron out several uncertainties when it faces Springfield College this afternoon. Game time at Soldiers Field...
...thousands of small arms, plus three bridges, seven airplanes, four small submarines, eight ships, three armored trains, several concrete pillboxes, and a two-ton unexploded aerial bomb that he defused himself. His current collection includes almost every conceivable kind of military firearm of the past 500 years, an "iron maiden" and other torture instruments, 20 old castles and forts scattered across Italy...