Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rejects the Poles], we will either be forcing a suffering nation into a fruitless revolt or we will be forcing the Polish government to again become hopelessly dependent on Moscow. If we fail to help the Poles, who else in Germany, Czechoslovakia, or anywhere else behind the Iron Curtain will dare stand up to the Russians and look westward...
...more he thought about the Kentucky Derby, the more Veteran Jockey Eddie Arcaro was embarrassed by the memory of Calumet's Iron Liege finishing so far in front of him. "It was my fault," decided Eddie. "I shouldn't have held Bold Ruler back; I shouldn't have run his race for him." So when Wheatley Stable's dark bay colt went to the post at Pimlico for the 81st running of the Preakness, Eddie went along just for the ride. He let Bold Ruler break for the lead, thought nothing of scrapping with sprint star...
...world's richest property holders. Though it is committed to free enterprise, it controls 314 German industrial companies worth well over $1 billion, which it inherited from the Kaisers and the Nazis. These control 90% of the nation's lignite mining, 50% of its. iron-ore mining, 20% of its hard-coal mining plus much of its production of aluminum (70%), lead (42%), zinc (28%), oil (18%) and steel (5%). The state also controls 100% of the German railway (total employment: 500,000) and telegraph systems...
...keeping himself from being eaten, the Middle African man-in-the-bush was for the most part unaware of the rich potential of the land beneath his feet. There, waiting to be found by the white man, were some of the earth's greatest stores of precious gems, iron, coal, gold, tin, copper and tungsten for the dawning age of electricity, pitchblende from which the minerals of the atomic age would one day be refined, and scores of other metals...
...summer, folk tales will come to life in ancient German castles, monasteries and town markets; the Pied Piper will tootle through the streets of Hamelin, and the Hans Sachs dramas will run in the medieval, walled town of Rothenberg-on-Tauber. In Berlin, where Americans can walk through the Iron Curtain to the shattered East sector, some of the world's top architects have rebuilt a war-gutted neighborhood in the West sector for the city's International Building Exhibition, which runs from July through September...