Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Five minutes after visiting hours ended at Belfast's Crumlin Road jail, where more than 100 suspected Irish Republican Army terrorists and other activists were being held without trial, a bomb blasted the prison's 15 ft. teak-and-iron gates off their hinges. Two guards and two prisoners were injured. Three days later, fire alarms sounded at the headquarters of the Electricity Board of Northern Ireland, and the office staff trooped down the back stairway-just in time to catch the full force of a gelignite bomb hidden in a ground-floor locker. One man was killed...
SENSING that a historic agreement could be in the making, small knots of West Berliners began gathering one evening last week at the massive iron gates of the Allied Control Council's palatial headquarters in Kleist Park. Every so often, Soviet Ambassador Pyotr Abrasimov or one of his aides would slip silently away on a mission to East Berlin-to consult, it was later disclosed, with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, who had flown in to oversee the crucial final stages of the 17-month-old talks on the future of Berlin. Then, shortly after midnight, the sound...
...continued supremacy of the Protestant minority. Protestant Wolfe Tone characterized the laws as "that execrable and infamous code, framed with the art and the malice of demons, to plunder and degrade and brutalize the Catholics." Execrable they were. Catholic priests were branded on the cheek with a red-hot iron if they failed to register their names and the names of their parishes. Catholics were excluded from political life and forbidden their own schools. They were not permitted to marry Protestants, acquire land from a Protestant, carry arms or own a horse worth more than...
CHAPTER III: A cool rain is falling on Clydebank. Labor's ex-Prime Minister Harold Wilson arrives at 11:45 a.m. outside the iron gates at John Brown's yard. He is just in time for a warm welcome by shop stewards, a quick briefing on the takeover, and a noon lunch with the workers. He pumps hands with worried men in flat checked caps and tells one apprentice: "This is a grim time, lad." After a spot of tea and a puff on his pipe, Wilson climbs onto a chair and says: "I am here on behalf...
Since 1965, Japanese steel production and the corresponding coal and iron-ore imports have grown at an average 11% per year. Unable to meet the coal and ore import needs of the mills, Japanese steamship companies began chartering extra tonnage from foreign shipowners. As a result, almost all freight rates were pushed skyward. At the peak of the boom in 1969, the steamship companies were chartering Greek and Norwegian vessels to haul coal from Hampton Roads, Va., to Japan for the hungry steel mills at rates that gave the shipowners profits of as much...