Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although it was past midnight Monday when Brandt's resignation was announced, more than 150 torch-bearing Social Democratic Party members marched up to Brandt's house on the Venusberg overlooking Bonn. Placing candles before its heavy iron gate, they took up a silent vigil, broken only by occasional shouts of "Willy! Stay in office!" The following day, tens of thousands of Brandt supporters marched through cities across Germany-Hamburg, Frankfurt, Hannover, West Berlin, Bonn. Telegrams urging the Chancellor to reconsider flooded S.P.D. headquarters...
...third martini last night, I'm embarrassed to have our kids read this and think it's part of the life I'm in." Democratic Congressman Morris K. Udall of Arizona made a pitch for politicians in general, saying: "They deserve better than to be branded with the cynical iron that has marked the burglars, buggers and influence peddlers of this Administration...
Reserve Mining, which is owned jointly by Armco Steel and Republic Steel, produces 15% of the U.S.'s iron ore. It mines taconite around Babbitt, Minn., then ships the flintlike rock 50 miles to Silver Bay, on the shores of Lake Superior. There the iron content of the taconite is extracted, and the wastes, or "tailings," are dumped into the water. Any time that Reserve is attacked for polluting the lake-and the attacks have been continuous since 1967-it says that it might have to close the plant if ordered to stop. That would wreak economic havoc, since...
Radcliffe will be facing the iron of Eastern women's crew--Connecticut College (second in the Sprints last year to Radcliffe), Williams (third in the Sprints), the University of Massachusetts, Barnard College, and B.U. On paper, all of the crews but Barnard are capable of putting together the kind of race needed...
Cohen said he was meeting later this week with Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, to iron out procedural matters. "The money will probably be deposited at a bank in the area and the newspaper delivery boys will pass out flyers telling students where...