Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...again. After two rounds, Casper was deadlocked at the top with Florida's Dan Sikes; Harney was a stroke back in third. A third-round 68 shot Paul into the lead, and the rest was easy-with a little bit of luck. Harney's wild No. 2-iron second shot on the par-five ninth hole barely missed a boundary fence, scooted through a crowd of fans in the rough, bounced into another crowd around the green and somehow trickled to a stop just off the apron. "You must have gone to Mass this morning," joked...
...taste. Navigation had proved the world rounder and more compact than even Columbus thought. Rembrandt was mastering the play of light and shade, or chiaroscuro, as the baluster lathework of Louis XIII furniture tried to imitate. Louis XIII knew art lent dignity to the Crown. His style was spreading, iron hand in velvet glove with nationalism, while France pioneered the idea of the modern, absolute state. Something of this marriage of vigor and elegance remain the style's touchstone to this day and the underlying reason for its appeal...
...build and manage a hotel in Budapest. Though that idea fell through, at least four of the satellite countries are negotiating with Pepsi-Cola. The Communists want to buy Pepsi's franchises, but it is still possible that U.S. companies might buy into bottling plants behind the Iron Curtain...
...Carrot. Cyrus Eaton Jr., son of the U.S. industrialist who has long championed trade with the East, has opened a Cleveland-based company called Tower International to help arrange and finance deals between the U.S. and Iron Curtain countries, has already signed up as a sales agent for Hungary. The U.S. now favors such deals instead of frowning upon them, hoping to use U.S. trade as a carrot to lure the satellites closer to the West...
VIOLENT contrasts racked his life and art. His poems could be golden and struck by grace, split by the metaphysical hammer of God; but his most golden lines were yoked to an ironic, satanic vision of the meanness of a scrap-iron age. He captured, and still captures, the minds of the young; but he personified himself as "an old man in a dry month," and his characteristic poetic voice was that of a man who seemed at least 50 the day he was born...