Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country's oldest college stadium is beginning to show the wear and tear of its long life and many years without renovation. There are even those who say that the old structure may have to be condemned in the near future if something is not done ot keep its iron beams from sagging and rotting and if its toilet facilities are not drastically upgraded in the near future...
This firm determination in the Class of '49, not to surrender to the fashionable pessimisms of the present day, has forged an iron link from the age that is past to the age that is waiting before. And I, for my part, say unabashedly, congratulations, Class of '49 on a job well done...
...October working paper," a broad-sweep charter that outlines the country's goals for the next quarter-century. Right now, Sadat is putting major emphasis on liberalizing the economic field. Unlike its oil-rich Arab neighbors, Egypt has few proven petroleum reserves, although it does have deposits of iron ore, phosphate, cobalt, nickel and copper...
...neither to Astaire nor Kelly nor to any of the meticulously choreographed clown scenes of the '50s. In clip after clip, they are outdone by unintentional comedy. The Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald epic Rose Marie (1936) offers the couple known to Hollywood as the Singing Capon and the Iron Butterfly in a Canadian Mountie scene that must be heard to be disbelieved. Even in the '40s, MGM knew that there were different strokes for different folks. Esther Williams could do them all, in a series of swimming-pool epics that for elaborate waste of money, have been unmatched...
...celebration. The good news was confined to a 3% drop in wholesale farm-product prices, which should lead to a welcome decline in some retail prices within the next few weeks-but many economists believe that the downward pressure on food is about spent. Industrial products ranging from iron and steel scrap to lumber, cotton, man-made fibers and animal hides rose an average of 2.3% in April, a figure that almost equals the torrid pace set earlier this year. Overall, the wholesale index in the past three months has risen at a compound annual rate of 13.5%, a sure...