Word: ironic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vast store of nervous energy makes it impossible for him to sit still long enough to read anything but business reports. Even while dictating he usually swings a No. 3 iron at imaginary golf balls. At 62, he is still willing to try almost anything once. At Sun Valley, not long ago, he spotted "Prince" Mike Romanoff, the Hollywood restaurateur, on skis, and promptly declared: "If Romanoff can do it, so can I." Soon Hilton was snowplow-ing down the beginners' slope...
People of the United States must let these behind the Iron Curtain know that this country would use the atomic bomb only for retaliation, Senator Ralph E. Flanders said last night in Littauer auditorium in this fall's third and final Godkin Lecture...
Discussing the present "cold war," the Vermont solon declared that a giant advertising campaign behind the Iron Curtain was the best way in which to avert another World...
...means of reaching the peoples behind the Iron Curtain, Flanders suggested the seemingly ridiculous device of the free balloon, dropping pictures and simple reading matter at intervals as it floats over the enormous areas of European Russia...