Word: ironed
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...Edirne in modern Turkey, has been the most fought-over place in the world (it stands at the land bridge between Europe and Asia). If Keegan spends too little time on war in the 20th century, his unusual design -- a layering of material in chapters called "Stone," "Flesh," "Armies," "Iron" and so on -- permits him to range across time and distance to brilliant comparative effect. He roams from the Japanese suppression of firearms during the Tokugawa seclusion (an early success of gun $ control, unrepeatable and totalitarian) to the Aztec "Feast of the Flaying of Men"; from Sun Tzu to Clausewitz...
Fervent, foreboding music and feverish operatic voices accompany the progress of a black gondola, adorned with the head of dragon. It weaves though a dark network of water-bound caves, and soon we behold a dungeon--thousands of hands reaching out from behind iron gridding--and a hulk-sized executioner with a burnt head a la Freddy Kruger...
Part of China's ability to avoid attention comes from its success in smoothing over the sharp edges of its image. On the economic front, China has permitted capitalism to grow beyond long-standing black markets, though these changes have mostly in urban areas. Its "Iron Curtain" is punctured by a continuous if modest flow of emigrants to the United States and Canada. Students also leave China to study in the West; those that return often become important in modernization efforts...
...border disputes that have poisoned the region for centuries? And if they do, are they also prepared for the hostile reaction the move will trigger in a Russia that looks westward with as much suspicion as envy? Is there any virtue in a new NATO that shifts the Iron Curtain back to Russia's very borders...
Fears of a new Iron Curtain coming down between Russia and Eastern Europe are widespread in Moscow, but NATO Secretary-General Manfred Worner insists they are misplaced. "Nothing this alliance will do will be against Russia," he insists. East European leaders say much the same thing and suggest that a solid phalanx of new NATO states in the region would be a force for stability...