Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...advancing Union forces. The Monitor met a different fate. Nine months after the fight, she sank in a gale off Cape Hatteras, N.C., taking 16 members of her 63-man crew down with her. The precise spot where the ship-with her eight layers of 1-in. iron plates and two 111n. guns in a revolving turret-went down remained a mystery...
...TIME'S photographs of Solzhenitsyn [Feb. 11] disclose a face like those icons of old Russian saints: full of sorrow, pity and love, but beneath that a vein of iron, a burning conviction and vast inner resources. The Soviet government will exhaust itself in trying to break his spirit...
...from MIT, which captured the individual team title in foil. Paced by Swedish Olympic team member Johan Akerman, the Engineers ran up 26 wins to bring the foil title back to New England for the first time since 1931. Harvard was the last New England squad to capture the "Iron Man" trophy for the IFA foil title...
...incredibly misdirected and always stalled, while short wiry policemen with sunglasses and tremendous black women stood on streetcorners as if for some common purpose. Not too far away were what had been the grandest of the old houses in town, three or four large places with New Orleans iron balconies and fan lights over the door, where a judge or banker could have lived. The columns had warped with rot and cracked open. In one of these houses lived a crazy old lady of the Capote/Faulkner stamp, her house full of wilted memories and flowers, whose special craziness was keeping...
With back-to-back wins against the "iron" of the league and a first-ever share of the Ivy title, Harvard has proved that it has come a long way from the untested squad that struggled early in the season...