Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same kind of iron discipline prevailed when more than 50,000 mourners assembled in a vigil outside the Palace of Justice, where the bodies of some of the slain lawyers were allowed to lie in state. Though the government at first had sought to ban any funeral ceremony, the crowds were kept in order by efficient left-wing marshals wearing red armbands. While helmeted riot police looked on from a distance, the demonstrators stood in silence, many with clenched fists in the air, uttering an occasional shout of "Assassins!" quickly hushed by the marshals. It was an impressive display...
Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi startled the world last month by relaxing the iron rule she had maintained under a state of emergency declared in mid-1975: she ended press censorship, freed political prisoners and scheduled parliamentary elections for next month. Whatever her political motives, her timing in one respect was sound. The Indian economy, described by a U.S. expert as "a great lumbering elephant," has turned so frisky that Mrs. Gandhi need have no fear of the economy becoming an issue in a free election. As she said in announcing the vote, "Anyone can see that today the nation...
...about to start preparing for the West Coast opening of Pumping Iron. But last week, having survived the headaches of the New York premiere, lie packed off with Weight Lifter Schwarzenegger and a few hefty friends for an early-morning dinner at Elaine's. When the meal was over, someone noticed that half the guests had ordered the same fare-mussels. Gasped Zarem in delight: "I didn't even plan...
...horseman on the Parthenon's west side is all but obliterated. In addition to the pollution damage, frosts and water seepage have cracked some of the stones. Others have been split by a disastrously ignorant restoration of the Parthenon's columns from 1913 to 1931, when iron bars were inserted in the stones as reinforcements; they soon corroded...
...unbuilt museum at the base of the Acropolis. The bare patches will be filled with fiber-glass replicas, made by the British Museum-which, thanks to Lord Elgin, already has the better part of the Parthenon's original friezes. As for the stones, the rusty iron clamps and rods will have to be extracted and replaced in what one UNESCO expert calls "a gigantic root-canal job." Finally there is the problem of mass tourism-3 million visitors a year shepherded round the Acropolis by yammering guides, 6 million feet setting up their cumulative (and, says UNESCO, destructive) vibrations...