Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Czena of Los Angeles participated in the Hungarian revolution of 1956. When Soviet forces crushed the rebellion, Czena, then 20, escaped by slipping out the back door of his grandmother's house in rural Kunagota just as the Hungarian secret police arrived to arrest him. Now the owner of Iron Masters, a manufacturer of structural steel and decorative iron, Czena feels a swell of pride in the political and economic changes taking place in his homeland. Czena plans to take part by building a steelworks there, but he readily concedes that he is motivated more by patriotism than...
...Soviet Union has drawn its hard-currency reserves so low that many bills for imported goods remain unpaid, which is quickly eroding the country's credit rating. "We're now advising firms to do business here only if they have a letter of credit or some other cast-iron guarantee of payment beforehand," said the commercial attache of a Western embassy in Moscow. No mention of whether there is a charge for that letter of credit...
...closest advisors rule Harvard with an iron hand not only because of their specific policies, but because they have defined the role of the University in the two decades since Saundra Graham--and so many others--called for its reevaluation...
...Rule with an iron hand. Hard-line ideologues argue that visible force and revolutionary spirit are essential to maintain order. They favor reviving old- fashioned sloganeering and mass-action campaigns, like the recent one urging people to "Learn from Lei Feng," a mawkishly selfless soldier who was virtually canonized by Chairman Mao. If stronger medicine is needed to awaken top party and local leaders to the dangers of internal divisions, hard-liners are offering a one-hour video titled Eastern Europe in Turmoil. According to one viewer, the tape is designed "to make local Communist officials realize that...
...cemeteries in France. None of those episodes provoked the torrent of outrage unleashed by the grisly find two weeks ago in a graveyard in Carpentras in southern France. Investigators speculate that four vandals set upon the Jewish burial ground in the hours before dawn, shattering tombstones with sledgehammers and iron bars. The desecraters, who are still unidentified, dragged one woman's body halfway out of her grave. They also exhumed the corpse of an 81-year-old man buried only two weeks earlier and impaled it on an umbrella...