Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...China's Great Leap Forward, which began in 1958, ground to a halt only three years later in a shambles of rusting backyard iron furnaces and neglected farms. The experiment set the nation back economically a full decade; yet last week the Red Chinese seemed to be gathering strength for another leap. The length and direction of the stride were far from clear in the murky prose pouring out of Peking. What was clear was that Mao Tse-tung was rallying Red China's 700 million people for another supreme effort of some sort, and behind...
Last spring, aerial photos were taken of the premises, which include half-buried pre-Roman ramparts dating back to the Iron Age. Then, in a three-week dig that has just ended, three big exploratory holes were carved in the dry loam to a depth of about 7 ft. Out of them came "Arthurian matter" called "minor jackpots" by the diggers, one of whom headily claimed to have found a carved letter "A." Presumably that meant something different in A.D. 500 than it did in Nathaniel Hawthorne's time...
Major Efforts. Along with more pottery, the jackpots include a 1-in.-long bronze pin for fastening garments, and a blackened iron knife blade some 5 in. long. University of Wales archaeologists conducting the dig found new ramparts within the older pre-Roman walls. Farther up the hillside they also found postholes 1 ft. in diameter-unusually large for the time-that may indicate the site of Arthur's mead hall, plus grain-storage pits and burnt remains from another timber structure...
...modernize the industry. That nationalization will reform British steel is doubtful, but private industry has done little in the 13 years since steel was denationalized, and few would disagree with the Observer that "British steel is a mess." Now, even in the British domestic market, imported pig iron, at $53.20 a ton, undersells the local stuff...
...outer layers of such a star produces more and more helium at its core. The doomed star's interior shrinks rapidly; and the density of its core increases. As temperatures rise in the contracting core, the collected helium is converted into successively heavier elements, such as iron and gold, which crowd the lighter elements outward...