Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...against his own nature. Pat Buchanan and I had known Father McGonigal at Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C., in the mid-'50s, when McGonigal was the prefect of discipline there. McGonigal looked like a fire hydrant cased in a black cassock--short and squat, with iron muscle bulges. He radiated punitive rage. One morning he hammered a boy to the classroom floor with his fists and left him there with a concussion, the other boys too terrified to intervene. The Jesuits shipped McGonigal off to southern Maryland, to listen to the songbirds in a quieter parish...
DILMANTEN IRON WORKS, N.H.--New Hampshire voters took their role as "first in the nation" quite seriously yesterday, turning out in droves to cast ballots in the state's primary...
Elementary school students from the Kwong Kuo Chinese School presented Chinese songs on hammered dulcimers and performed several traditional dances, including a dance with "iron fans...
Several Crimson had particulary strong swims. Freshman Greg Wriede was the "iron man" for the day, a tradition in which a freshman swims every race against either Brown or Dartmouth (whichever meet is at Harvard...
...demands of fuel economy, that there is not much profit left except in the luxury models. Trucks and truckoids, even with the power windows, CD players and pleated leather seats that suburban buyers are asking for, are still simple enough, many with rear-wheel drive and huge, iron power plants outmoded 20 years ago, to return $4,000 to $6,000 in profit per vehicle. And so far, buyers have absorbed sizable price rises--for pickups, from $17,000 or $18,000 to $22,000 or $24,000 in a couple of years--without much grumbling, except for wistful murmurs...