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Word: ironed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old university student who watched with great hope and anticipation while a man I never had heard of, in a country never spoken of, built carefully, step by step, that intangible but priceless object-freedom. Then came the familiar rumbling of iron tanks. Bitterly, I look to my leaders to find them afraid of intervening, yet ever anxious to send more and more troops to a corner in Southeast Asia, where they care about neither Communism nor freedom. I turn to the United Nations and find them playing a game that they can never win. And most bitterly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 6, 1968 | 9/6/1968 | See Source »

When the Czech film The Shop on Main Street was released in 1966, Ida Kaminska, 68, long a distinguished member of the Yiddish theater in her native Poland, became a familiar figure on the western side of the Iron Curtain. Now Miss Kaminska has decided she likes the West as much as the West likes her. Along with four members of her family, she flew from Poland to Vienna. Next stop is Israel, where she will be a guest of the government for a few weeks. She plans to come to the U.S. later this year and remain for good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 6, 1968 | 9/6/1968 | See Source »

...alone produced the defeat of Germany, Italy and Japan, the first atomic bombs and the United Nations, plus the deaths of Hitler, Mussolini and Roosevelt. And what subsequent year really compares with Cold-war 1948, when the Russians blockaded Berlin, took over Czechoslovakia (the first time), and bolted the Iron Curtain across Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: WHAT A YEAR! | 8/30/1968 | See Source »

Nebraska-born Baldrige worked his way up from pouring iron to the presi dency of Connecticut's Eastern Co. be fore being tapped for the Scovill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: A Very Individual Manager | 8/30/1968 | See Source »

Died. Charles E. Sorensen, 86, Henry Ford's production chief from 1919 to 1944; after a long illness; in Bethesda, Md. Impatient, often tyrannical, "Cast-Iron Charlie" devised the moving assembly line, which revolutionized the auto industry and pushed the output of Ford's flivvers past the 30 million mark by the early 1940s. In World War II, Sorensen applied the same principle to aircraft plants which turned out four-engine B-24 bombers at the rate of one every three hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 23, 1968 | 8/23/1968 | See Source »

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