Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Beauty is a conspiracy of pain forced upon women. Anorexia, induced by the pursuit of attractiveness, turns girls into something resembling skeletons. In the boardroom and in the bedroom, women are entrapped by a cult that is the equivalent of the iron maiden, a medieval torture instrument that impaled its captives on iron spikes...
Then, all of a sudden, the Iron Lady was again the kind and polite hostess...
...most Americans the word "Germany" conjures up images of beer steins, Oktoberfest and high-tech luxury automobiles. But the Germany that most Americans visit and think about has been the Federal Republic, or West Germany. Since the Iron Curtain descended in 1945, the eastern half of Germany has represented little more than a gray stone in the impenetrable wall of the Soviet Empire...
...Auto horns honked, people embraced each other in the streets and soldiers fired automatic weapons into the air, apparently in the belief that the war was as good as over. But as word of the long list of conditions circulated, the mood turned dejected, if not sullen. As an iron-fisted dictator who rules through fear, Saddam is immune to pressure from any Iraqi peace movement; there is none. But even he must be concerned with morale, and the crowd reactions indicate he might have difficulty rallying his people to endure still more bombing after having given them even...
...compiled a decidedly mixed record when it comes to sacrificing for the common good. Not surprisingly, the First and Second World Wars were accompanied by large-scale national mobilizations for the war effort. Millions fought, while those on the homefront sold Victory Bonds and gathered scrap iron. But the Life magazine appeals to conserve soap and forego new stockings quickly disappeared after the war ended, casualties of a flourishing consumer society...