Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think anybody is going to sit down and say: "We're going to take a 90-day strike in order to get presidential intervention." This is the first time Jimmy Carter has had to intervene. We stayed out of the longshoremen's strike and the iron-ore strike, and they were resolved. We've communicated that we'll do everything we can to facilitate the process, to conciliate, to supply information, but it's your problem...
These young Britons are not members of a hippie commune, but volunteers for an experiment in Iron Age living, sponsored and filmed by the BBC and now on English television as a twelve-part series. Isolated deep in the Wiltshire woods, they have spent nearly a year trying to re-create the lives of their Celtic ancestors of 2,200 years...
...Producer John Percival, an archaeology buff, conceived the project after a visit to a re constructed Iron Age settlement in Lejre, Denmark. From 1,000 volunteers, Percival selected six couples and trained them in Celtic crafts and culture. One couple, with the commune's only children, three boys, braved it for much of the year but quit the experiment several months ago. The others have stayed on, raising crops and livestock, making pottery, cooking Iron Age food and spinning and weaving wool sheared from their own sheep...
Doing things "proper Iron Age" became the commune's buzz words. A sieve made out of animal hair was allowed-the Celts might have devised it. But when John Rossetti made a chair, Percival destroyed it. Says he: "It was too early to have thought up such a thing." Martin Elphick, a doctor from Kent, pursued primitive medicine, treating flu with violet and willow bark, headaches with valerian root, and asthma with deadly nightshade. The Iron Agers developed their own dyes, appletree bark for yellow, the yew tree for orange, lichens for brown and green...
...amusement, the Iron Agers told stories, played the lyre, pipe and drums, and competed at "Nine Men's Morris," an ancient board game. Sarah Rockcliff, who dearly missed her afternoon tea, made do with brews of dandelion or mint...