Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wasn't as efficient as the iron man H.R. Haldeman. Herb Klein kept his files in his coat pocket or somewhere, and like most ex-reporters he ignored flow charts and organization tables. What he had was an understanding that democracy and its government are untidy and considerably inefficient, and there isn't a hell of a lot you can do about that without destroying their soul...
...over a splintered Faculty in 1970 and in the next several years knit the deeply-rooted divisions back together, sending independent-minded reformers either into disarray or scurrying for the center. As Otto von Bismarck had once manipulated German liberals into supporting his reunification efforts, so did Harvard's Iron Chancellor unite most of the Faculty, restoring a certain reverence for his office that had been absent for some time. Even most of Dunlop's erstwhile liberal opponents capitulated out of respect for his skillful blending of energy, manipulation and unorthodoxy...
Robert L. Schram '76, who heads the student committee which investigated calendar options and proposed the "early semester" plan, said that the committee members will try to iron out the Faculty's objections in time for the October meeting. But he doubts that they will succeed...
...Italy a few years ago, one referee had his ear bitten off. In France, all stadiums have been forced to erect 7-ft.-high iron fences to keep irate fans off the field. In Britain, police patrol special football trains to curb fights. Last week in Rome, after Juventus won the national league title by beating Roma, the Juventus players had to drive through a gauntlet of angry Roma supporters who pummeled their cars with sticks and boots...
...Iron Pellets. Rand then capitalized on the fact that tumors cut off from their blood supply die because they are unable to obtain nourishment or pass off wastes. To starve a tumor in one of his patients, Rand injected liquid silicone containing microscopic iron spheres into a blood vessel near the tumor. He waited until the material was carried through capillaries and into the tumor itself, then switched on his strategically placed magnet, which attracted the iron pellets and fixed them in the tumor. The spheres confined the viscous, quick-setting silicone, preventing it from entering the main bloodstream, where...