Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...OFFICE BUT STILL CASTING A LONG shadow, Winston Churchill came to Westminster College in Fulton, Mo., and declared that "an iron curtain" had descended across Europe. Last week another idle leader sketched a different vision: Mikhail Gorbachev came to Fulton and called for a world that is "democratic for the whole of humanity." The collapse of totalitarian regimes in Eastern Europe has released "exaggerated nationalism," old territorial claims and bloodshed, he said. "It would be a supreme tragedy if the world, having overcome the 1946 model, were to find itself once again in a 1914 model...
That may have been the worst, but it was not the only embarrassing news Iron Mike faced last week. In a syndicated television interview, Erinn Cosby, 25, daughter of entertainer Bill Cosby, alleged that three years ago she fought off Tyson after he made sexual advances toward her. King called her claim "absolutely not true...
...Democrats countered the by dismissing Reagan's participation in the democratic movements behind the Iron Curtain as "marginal...
...gone to bat for Claus von Bulow, Michael Milken and Leona Helmsley. Last week Alan Dershowitz showed up in Indianapolis to handle "Iron Bars" Mike Tyson's appeal. Wonder if he's too busy to help out Mrs. Noriega with her grand-theft charges...
...fans, and "the fans own the game." But fans also think they own the athlete; it makes them possessive and protective. Some are suspicious of women -- sports groupies -- who sue wealthy athletes. Outside the Indiana courthouse last week, a Tyson admirer carried the sign ANOTHER GOLD DIGGER PREYS ON IRON MIKE. Other fans, who are sympathetic to women's issues, simply will not be deprived of the winners who for all their sins give sport its snap and thrill. Can we forget this seamy stuff, the fans plead, and get on with the game...