Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Bologna to Brindisi, men strutted the streets with banners, sat stubbornly with arms folded in occupied factories or simply stayed home. There was no common denominator to the strikes, no overall pattern of agitation as in the past, but rather a vague feeling among Italian workers that the iron was hot. And strike they...
During the steel campaign, we dug up the basketball courts to make small furnaces, and students worked alongside teachers in shifts, day and night. I remember pulling a cart-load of scrap iron from a railway siding to the school (probably about ten miles), catching a few hours of sleep on a desk, and then taking my turn at the furnaces. The slogan then was "in the furnace we temper steel, outside we temper people...
...voluntary program would pay 80% of the costs of medical extras, such as limited ambulance service, X-rays and lab tests, electrocardiograms and radiotherapy, surgical dressings, splints, casts, artificial arms, legs and eyes, and even rental for home use of iron lungs and wheelchairs. Under the same 80% formula, the voluntary plan would further provide 100 home-nurse visits a year with or without prior hospitalization, thus supplementing the benefits that come under the compulsory social security part of the medicare program. Also provided: care in a mental hospital, of no more than 60 days at a time...
...book is much too long, fleshed out by generous excerpts from the Beerbohm works, each analyzed and explained to the point of tedium. But in between, there are touching glimpses of the top-hatted dandy whose means were as slender as his gifts: the impeccable Max was compelled to iron his own suits...
...Indonesia or Bolivia when East Europe is on our doorstep?" So says Berthold Beitz, 51, general manager of Germany's huge Krupp combine. Beitz has been spending so much time behind the Iron Curtain recently that his colleagues now call him "the ambassador from Essen...