Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lewis J. Tolleson Jr., manager of the Freshman dining hall, said that there is indication of organization and forethought in the theft of the television set. He said that an iron post normally located on the first floor was found near the door of the lounge on the second floor of the Union...
...stupor for three days. I was in terrible pain. They had dislodged the iron pin in my leg during the beating, and it was shoved three-quarters of an inch up into my hip. My mouth was so bruised that I could not open my teeth for five days...
...door of my cell." Finally, in the winter of 1968, he was taken back to the hospital. X rays showed that an operation was necessary. One of the guards told him that his leg had to be amputated. The wound was cleaned out, however, the iron clamp removed and the leg was finally on its way to healing-nearly 2½ years after it had been broken. In early February 1969, Kasler was returned to the Zoo, and got a roommate, Navy Commander Peter Schoeffel, who had been shot down in 1967. He had spent a total of 18 months...
...brilliant wilderness sky as they erect the skeleton of a new dam, half a mile long and 300 ft. high, across the frozen Angara River. Up in Yakutia, where temperatures dip to -90° F., reindeer-driven sleds bring supplies to geological-survey teams charting the wasteland for coal, iron...
Siberia also has the world's largest deposits of iron ore and coal, virgin forests as large as all of Europe, half the world's gold production and diamond deposits matching those of South Africa. Half a dozen great rivers, all flowing north into the Arctic Ocean, may one day provide hydroelectric power across the Bering Strait for Canada and the U.S. It is not so wild a dream. Already the Russians have built the world's largest dams on the Yenisei and Angara rivers at Krasnoyarsk and Bratsk, and a third one is going...