Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alleviating the pain of prowling through 23 pages of such high prose are little illustrations by a mysterious MCR, which draw the hearts of young males toward the lovely women whom she ostensibly pictures. The pages teem with agonized girls burning button-down shirts they are trying to iron; with fearful owls who have VC emblazoned on their chests; with dungareed, odd-shaped beauties whanging guitars; and with mink-coated so-phisticates dreaming of palm trees and sun (apparently there is little of the latter in "the Pough...
...Stern, 59, and his wife Martha Dodd Stern, 48, let a Prague press conference know they were in no hurry to return to the U.S. and explain their activities as professional Communist spies, announced that they would soon visit East Germany, Bulgaria, Communist China. Safe (so far) behind the Iron Curtain, the daughter of onetime (1933-37) U.S. Ambassador to Germany William E. Dodd, once famed for painting the town red at home and abroad, painted a picture of her own country with the same color, declared that "all progressive people" in the U.S. have been "liquidated" or are under...
...waves travel through the earth, they are bent and reflected in complicated ways. Some waves move faster than others; some are absorbed entirely. By disentangling the jiggly lines made by instruments recording many earthquakes, seismologists have determined that the earth is formed of concentric layers of different materials, with iron-nickel at the center and stony oxides nearer the surface...
...with asthma and high blood pressure to keep him from his order's austere regimen. His day begins at 5:30 a.m., with Mass, meditation and thanksgiving (by the rule of St. Ignatius, every Jesuit must spend four hours a day in prayer). By 9:15, with his iron bedstead curtained off, he transforms his bedroom into a study and tackles the day's work, sitting on a straight-backed chair behind a large wooden desk (another straight-backed chair for visitors and three shelves of books complete the office furnishings...
Steelmakers got up out of their summer slowdown and pushed operations to 82.7% of capacity. For the rest of the year mills are expected to pour about 85% of capacity, may well crack 1955's alltime production record of 117 million tons. Said Iron Age: "The looked-for upturn in steel is under way, and will reach a peak in late November or early December...