Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Paisley is optimistic about S.C.O.R.E., far beyond the skeptical car owner's inclination to agree. "You're not seeing cast iron out there," Paisley says, nodding toward the tarmac. "You're seeing aluminum. You're not seeing eight-cylinder engines. You're seeing four and even two. You look at some of these drive trains and you can put them in a bushel basket - that's how small they are. That's an indication of the cars of the future...
...helicoptered to the British army's most beleaguered Irish outpost, Crossmaglen, a heavily fortified and often attacked base in an area notorious for I.R.A. activity. Her speedy show of the flag in Ulster met with a sturdy rebuff from the I.R.A. Said a statement from the Provos: "The Iron Maiden's declaration of war is nothing but the bankrupt rattling of an empty...
...probably be more narrowly accurate to use words like corrupt or depraved to describe, say, punk rock, or murder in a gas line, but decadent is more popular because it contains a prophecy. To be decadent is to be not just corrupt, but terminally corrupt. "Decadence" speaks with the iron will of history and the punishment of the Lord. It is an accusation. "Woe to those who are at ease in Zion," wrote the prophet Amos, "and to those who feel secure on the mountain of Samaria. Woe to those who lie upon beds of ivory, who drink wine...
Harvard has also asked the MBTA for about $320,000 to finance the dismantling and reconstruction of the brick and iron fence which borders the Yard, L. Edward Lashman, University negotiator with the MBTA, said last week...
...slogans denouncing the "regime's encroachments on the people's fundamental liberties." Suddenly, sacks of fine earth were flung into the air by bands of marauding "phalangists," street toughs who break up antigovernment demonstrations. As the thick dust enveloped the crowd, the phalangists attacked with knives, clubs, iron bars, cleavers, chains and knuckle-dusters. In the confusion and panic some 200 people were injured. The demonstration, intended to be peaceful, had been called by the National Democratic Front, an alliance of liberal-democratic parties opposed to the dictatorial trend of the Islamic clergy...