Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legally integrating West Berlin into West Germany and replacing allied forces with German troops. Said Grewe: "The presence of German forces in Berlin can never have the political and psychological effect which the presence of the Western forces has." West Berlin, he said, stands as "a gap in the Iron Curtain" and is thus "a permanent obstacle to the effectiveness of totalitarian rule in Eastern Germany." What is needed, Grewe concluded, is "a cool head, strong nerves, unity and mutual confidence among the allies and, with regard to the Soviets, preparedness for every reasonable talk, but, if necessary, preparedness...
...also decided not to be oppressed by them. Says an officer of the Chamber of Trade and Industry, "We live by our hands and by our brains-and by other peoples' moods." Down inside, no West Berliner living in 186 sq. mi. of freedom no miles inside the Iron Curtain, can be indifferent to other people's moods, particularly "out there," as West Berliners call West Germany. In Bonn last week, before setting out for Berlin, Adenauer had summoned Socialist Opposition leaders for a rare visit to his Chancellery. All joined in spurning Khrushchev's talk...
...imperialist luxury. At Loyang, in Honan province, twelve primary schools recently heeded the Central Committee's directive that "the future direction is for schools to run factories and farms, and for factories and agricultural cooperatives to establish schools." They banded together, built the "Red Scarf" steel and iron factory, now claim production of 40 tons of metal daily. To ask that summer vacations be spent vacationing is "a decadent viewpoint ... It should be known that after spending a busy period of time in study, taking up manual work over a short period is good relaxation...
...seven to nine years old, the party press notes, generally like to collect nails and bits of wood and carry them in their pockets. This interest is channeled "into the field of significant labor activity" by sending the children outside the factory for two hours each day "to pick iron, scraps, dig and sift ore, gather wood and collect broken bits of earthenware." Students 14 and 15 years old "do the simple jobs of making molds, preparing materials, taking care of machinery and blowing oxygen." Older teen-agers more molten-steel ladles, refine ore and build the brick linings...
...Visitors, by Mary McMinnies. Funny things happen to the diplomatic set in this not-too-fictional Iron Curtain country, with full value wrung out of every absurdity that Western folly and a heavy-handed dictatorship can help to generate...