Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...primitive setting of the Sierra Maestra, women ate dried codfish and roots, tried to cling to femininity and spent odd moments applying treasured nail polish or borrowing some peasant's iron to put a crease in their riding pants. In keeping with the rebel camp's notable strictness, born of the rebels' single-minded attention to the tasks of war, the women lived apart from...
...these victories, foreshadowed at the recent NATO session in Paris, became official last week when the U.S., Britain and France, in different but "convergent" notes, rejected Khrushchev's proposals for all occupying nations to withdraw from a "free Berlin," which would then be isolated no miles inside the Iron Curtain. The obligation to protect the freedom of more than 2,000,000 West Berliners, the notes said, "is a right and responsibility solemnly accepted by the three Western powers." But, they added, if Khrushchev will abandon the "menace" of his six-month timetable, the three would be ready...
...understanding why he is being sacrificed for the benefit of the peasants." Observers offered a number of reasons: Red China is exporting about 2,000,000 tons of grain a year; China's archaic and anarchic transportation system, being rebuilt by the Reds, is bogged down lugging pig iron for the nation's new steel industry; the bureaucracy is making a mess of distribution. Last month the people of Canton, who live next to a sea of fish, could get no fish; Shanghai residents had to take half of their rice ration in sweet potatoes...
...symbol and out of danger. Raúl, who sports a Texas hat and shoulder-length hair but could not manage to grow a beard, matched Batista terror for terror, may find it hard to lay his pistol down. A onetime delegate to a student congress behind the Iron Curtain, he denounces U.S. "imperialism," likes to bait the U.S. (as when he seized 47 U.S. citizens as hostages last summer...
Playing Together. After a defeat, Rupp has been known to order his players to keep their uniforms on until the crowd has left, then send them back on the floor to iron out the mistakes they had made in the game. There is seldom an outstanding star on Rupp's fast-breaking, hard-running Kentucky teams. Rupp does not believe in them. "If the star has an off night, the whole team has an off night." he explains. Says North Carolina's Frank McGuire: "Kentucky has found the secret of basketball, that it's five guys playing...