Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THIS summer, the Kroks went on a world tour which lasted two months--and brought them behind the Iron Curtain for the first time. The singers say they especially enjoyed singing on the streets of Moscow...
...down the quiet, brick-fronted streets, it seemed as though I was entering a timeless area. In the window of an Italian grocery store a cat lounged indolently, gazing uncuriously at passers-by. Off the main streets, narrow lanes wound out of sight, leading to concealed courtyards fronted by iron gates and hanging plants...
Further down the street, some children played hide and seek between the parked cars. In front of them, tourists paused to snap photos of the iron fire escapes and stained glass windows on the narrow street. Overlooking it all stood the Old North Church, watching this scene impassionately as it has so many others since Paul Revere hung his lanterns there...
Farr wasn't in, and next door a man was veryinvolved with a ring and a five foot talloxyacetalyne blow torch, So I went down the hallto Taber Fowley, Wholesalers and Jobbers.Cardboard boxes were hanging haphazardly off rowsof wooden shelves; a huge iron safe, with goldgilt, was piled up with ragged-edged ledgers.Behind the counter was a tiny old man with a bluev-neck sweater and tufts of silver hair in hisears; he was looking through a pince-nez at abracelet...
...generations, pregnant women have dosed themselves with unpalatable, hazardous potions in desperate, largely unsuccessful efforts to rid their bodies of unwanted fetuses. Among the dubious household remedies: swallowing narcotics made from hempseed, douching with the caustic disinfectant potassium permanganate, and even quaffing gin laced with iron filings. Such medieval measures are now giving way to a modern alternative: drugs that can induce abortion. Approved in pill form abroad, they appear to have what their noxious predecessors lacked: safety and efficacy. They are not, however, lacking in controversy...