Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ones with the letter 'H' branded on their breasts no longer quaked behind the Ivy vines, slaying the cocky Goliath. They had done it without the use of Iron, for He had penned the virus of knowledge through books. Now all was Rosy. The people cheered, their spines tingling as they bowed at the witnessing of this sabbath eve miracle. PLAYER G FG-FGA REB. PTS. AVG. B. BANKS 21 125-221 169 327 15.6 B. HOOFT 26 131-268 132 328 12.6 C. BOOKER 26 105-217 114 264 10.2 G. FINE...
...couple who dropped out, Peter and Lindsay Ainsworth, could not agree more. The Ainsworths-he is a former union official, she is a hairdresser and yoga teacher-are vegetarians, and nettled their fellow Iron Agers by refusing to kill animals or eat meat. Lindsay resented some of the restrictions. One rule barred beverages between mealtimes, because there was no evidence that Iron Age people snacked...
Last summer the Ainsworths' five-year-old son developed a persistent rectal disorder. The commune wanted to vote on whether the family should stay or go, but the Ainsworths balked at the notion of group control and left. Was that a proper Iron Age decision? Says Lindsay: "An Iron Age mother would have attended to her child, especially if it was a boy." A specialist later reported that the primitive diet had produced the ailment, which contemporary meals promptly cleared...
...glass, can be bought for less than $50. It includes: a glass cutter, a breaker (for splitting the glass), a grozier (to grind off errors), copper foil or lead (to hold the pieces together), a lathekin (a wooden tool) to flatten the foil on the glass, a soldering iron, a lubricant (usually kerosene) to make the cutter run smoothly on the glass, a flux (a solution to make the solder adhere to the foil or lead). New techniques, such as sandblasting, silk-screen painting, laminating and the use of epoxy resins, enable artists to achieve subtle tactile and visual effects...
...Johann Strauss to waltz"--comes out, "She couldn't get Johann Strauss to waltz." That means, I suppose, that she couldn't get Johann Bach to waltz, either. Moreover, any self-respecting mystery buff can tell you that a "mashie-niblick," that jolly skull-splitter, is a five-iron; Bloomfield ludicrously brandishes a driver. All this may sound like nit-picking, but these errors are a fraction of those actually committed, and they all add up to a general impression of carelessness...