Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lower classes, had finally consented to join the coalition, and were more importantly sending troops to fight the Fascists. Everything had taken a turn for the better, so it seemed. But in an attempt to hold the continued support of the bourgeoisie, the ruling group pleaded the necessity for "iron discipline" on the home front, and thus banned trade unions at the same time as the Cominterm press was exalting the merits of the anarcho-syndicalists of Catalan, who had "risen to the occasion...
...holiday at the time," Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher told the House of Commons last week as opposition M.P.s jeered. It was a rare attempt by the Iron Lady to skirt responsibility, and Labor Party Leader Neil Kinnock challenged her explanation. Four times the Prime Minister, shouting, demanded that he withdraw his remarks; four times Kinnock refused. "Frankly," he told the House, "I do not believe her. The domineering style of her government forbids the belief that she was not involved in an issue as important as this...
...industry built of iron and steel is showing an affinity for the silicon chips of high technology. Railroads are the third-biggest private users of computers, after airlines and banks. At Burlington Northern operations headquarters, a battery of terminals has replaced a 65-ft. wall display that was formerly used for monitoring the whereabouts of locomotives. Southern Pacific, which developed the Sprint long-distance telephone service and sold it in 1983 to GTE for $740 million, is currently developing another advanced communications system. In a venture with Santa Fe and Norfolk Southern, the company is creating a coast-to-coast...
...Hungarian Squat Theatre), is the film's discoverer of America. Her rare moments of enthusiasm are moments of anticipation: when she finally gets "there" (New York, Florida, Ohio) she basically discovers the meaning of disappointment. As four guide for the day, she points to a scene with an iron fence and a snowstorm and says, "Well, this is it. Eake Erie. It's kind of a drag here really." When Eva realizes that this is as good as it gets and that the rest of the world isn't any better, and then plane tickets get switched and people...
...Prime Minister in dinner-party conversation. He has gone to the trouble of acquiring a canvas by Churchill, an amateur painter of some note. Two years after Weinberger became Defense Secretary, he chose to schedule a speech at Westminster College, the tiny Missouri school where Churchill delivered his famous "Iron Curtain" address in 1946. Though he employs a speechwriting staff of four, Weinberger insisted on writing much of the speech himself, including its most memorable passage. "We are perhaps in danger of becoming a nation of ascetic systems analysts," he said, "without the glowing fire and the vision...