Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...25th Hour. One fine day in the summer of 1939, a young Rumanian farmer with an iron arm and a wooden head jumps happily into his hay wagon and goes rattling away to the nearest market town. "Keep the bricks wet," he calls out to his wife. "I'll be back this afternoon." She keeps the bricks wet, but he does not come back that afternoon. She does not see him again until the bricks and both their lives and all of Europe have been ground to rubble under the German jackboot...
...campaign is aimed at the enemy's softer instincts, and is embodied in the official Tet poster of maidens carrying bouquets of apricot flowers. One local leaflet elaborates on the theme by tying it to Operation Cedar Falls, which razed V.C. farms and granaries in the Iron Triangle last month. "Are your rations scarce?" it asks. "Three hundred of you have rallied, and they are now where they can be well fed and secure. How about you?" Another quotes Ho Chi Minh: "Remember Uncle's own words as you consider your fate: 'The war may last five...
...their allotted terms, four Americans who had been in East German prisons for more than a year. Three of them-Frederick Matthews, 24, Moses Herrin, 26, and Mary Battle, 26-had been convicted of the once unpardonable offense of assisting persons who wanted to flee the Iron Curtain. The fourth, William Lovett, 26, was imprisoned in May, 1965 for his part in a serious auto crash in Leipzig...
...protected by a strong University and second because of his remarkable gift for selfcontrol. In his personal manner, and in his writing and speaking, he apparently has complete control over his emotions. They never intrude into the bright, short sentences. This could be the product of years of iron selfdiscipline and scholarly commitment, but Fairbank seems to possess a more natural gift--perspective. Behind that curious, expressionless face lies...
...chain were rising at Lahore and Rawalpindi in Pakistan, Nicaragua's Managua, and Auckland, N.Z. This month the company will break ground in Manila, and architects are drafting plans for hotels in Victoria Falls and Lusaka in Zambia, and Nairobi, Kenya. Inter-Continental is even represented behind the Iron Curtain with Zagreb's Esplanade, and emissaries are dickering with Hungarian Communists about helping to run a hotel in Budapest...