Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...responsibility for writing the editorials, soliciting copy from other sources, and seeing the paper through the press. (Printing was done alternately at the Riverside Press and John Wilson & Sons, in Cambridge.) Periodically, meetings of the staff were called by the President, who would hang The Crimson shingle from an iron bar on the side of University Hall to summon editors to his room that evening...
...pride of Germany must be bitter and frustrate when she knows that against her are allied all the great freedom loving and self-governing Powers of the earth. Will she find her own defeat worth all the blood and iron it cost her, all her wrecked fortune, her ruined strength...
...weapons, all inherited from Speakers of the past. First, he controlled all committee assignments. Second, only Cannon could recognize members on the floor. Finally, Cannon was chairman of the Rules Committee, which oversaw the flow of legislation. Both careers and legislation depended on his whim. He was called the "Iron Duke of American politics...
Outmuscled. Peace, however, did not last long aboard Mi Amigo. After going ashore, ostensibly for a rest, Van der Kamp returned in the dark of night with the other three crew members, armed (according to the disk jockeys) with guns. The deejays tried to defend their quarters with iron bars but were outmuscled by the sailors. The captain cut the anchor, and a small tugboat dragged Mi Amigo into Amsterdam harbor. Charges and countercharges flew; a Dutch shipping inspector declared Mi Amigo unsafe to sail...
...payoff, Filion's operation is relatively small-time. The vast majority of the 125 standardbreds he partially or wholly owns are inexpensive horses that he has picked up in claiming races.* In fact, Filion's admirers say, the "Little Iron Man"-as the cocky, compact (5 ft. 6 in., 150 lbs.) French Canadian is known-will race any combination of two wheels and four legs. One of Filion's alltime favorites was a horse called Rabbit, an equine outpatient that, as one railbird recalls, had "four lame legs and so many bone chips he sounded like...