Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gold pointed out that even if Watergate is regarded merely as a "stupid and unnecessary" criminal act, "President Nixon is responsible for not sufficiently impressing his subordinates with an iron resolve that he would not suffer stupid, unnecessary criminal activities permitted in the name of his re-election campaign...
...gone a long way toward shedding Liberia's reputation as a docile U.S. colony. While staying on good terms with the U.S., he has established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia. He has wheedled a better deal out of foreign concessionaires who export Liberia's iron ore and rubber, increasing the revenues to his treasury by some $5,000,000 a year. He is hoping to attract another $700 million from U.S. and Japanese sources for a huge new iron-ore project at Wologisi (estimated reserves: up to a billion tons...
...Club 47 was the place to go in Cambridge seven or eight years ago. You'd walk down those outdoor iron stairs at 47 Palmer Street into a dingy cave that held about 50 people you couldn't see. You'd pay your quarter or half-buck, and Tom Rush '64 would be sitting there, growling away...
Martin's strongest assets are his acutely sensitive political antennae, which can detect and analyze the most byzantine political situations, and an iron determination to see Government policy carried out regardless of anyone's hurt feelings. Martin, now 60, first learned his political skills while working as a Washington columnist for a number of newspapers in his native South, and then as an official in Franklin Roosevelt's National Recovery Administration. Appointed to the Paris embassy after World War II, he became so adroit in finding and exploiting sources of power that he acquired a nickname that...
Tolleson said that the door glass panel was broken with the iron post and the burglar did not touch the pinball machines...