Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...claimed that his Canton- based Kuomintang represented the entire republic, local warlords ruled much of the country, notably the huge northern territory of Manchuria. The Japanese, who had blocked a number of Russian incursions into Manchuria, were moving in to gain control of the region's plentiful coal and iron, which Japan sorely lacked...
...only Western power strong enough to retaliate, banned all iron and steel shipments to Japan. "It seems inevitable," said Asahi Shimbun, then Japan's largest daily, "that a collision should occur between Japan, determined to establish a sphere of interest in East Asia . . . and the United States, which is determined to meddle in affairs on the other side of a vast ocean." Added Yomiuri, another giant newspaper: "Asia is the territory of the Asiatics...
...years ago, when the Iron Curtain was coming down, almost everyone in the West was celebrating -- except Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger. In a speech at Georgetown University, he found the cloud in the silver lining. "For all its risks and uncertainties," he said, "the cold war was characterized by a remarkably stable and predictable set of relationships among the great powers." He foresaw the "danger that the change in the East will prove too destabilizing to be sustained." He was thinking particularly about Yugoslavia, where he began his diplomatic career. He knew what ancient demons lurked...
This intriguing fact, say project scientists, is a strong hint that the mountain has recently been covered with lava. Rock that sits on the surface of mountaintops appears to weather quickly in the hot, chemically reactive atmosphere, creating a soil that is rich in iron sulfide. It is this mineral, the scientists believe, that shows up easily on radar. If Maat Mons doesn't have any, it has presumably been resurfaced, perhaps within the past few years...
This fatalism was the iron at the core of Paris Trout, Dexter's last novel, which won the National Book Award. Brotherly Love deals with tough guys living brutal lives. Toward the end, in the house of an old man who sells guns, matters go sour during a deal and one man shotguns two others. The old man waits to be shot himself, because that is the way things happen; he's in the wrong place at the wrong time. Now two lines...