Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...People in countries behind the Iron Curtain celebrate Christmas in dimly-lit basements, garages, or catacombs...
Bang, bang, went his long wooden club shots, as straight as arrows, to the Field, the Lake, and the Dun. Now he wanted two 4's to win, and who that saw it will forget that wholehearted long iron shot smashed right up to the Royal green, with the road on one side and the bunker creeping in on the other...
During Stalin's iron rule, he commanded virtually unlimited support for his outlandish agricultural schemes, controlled the direction of research in areas far beyond his competence-and set back Soviet genetics nearly a generation. Indeed, when Izvestia last week belatedly revealed the death of Trofim Denisovich Lysenko at age 78 in a brief back-page announcement, his bitter legacy was still all too apparent. Only now are the biological sciences in the U.S.S.R. finally recovering from what the American geneticist I. Michael Lerner calls "the most bizarre chapter in the history of modern science...
...high crime area. The University's long-standing contention that the area near Harvard and Ware Streets is unsafe for women students--which until this year served as an excuse for keeping the Union Dorms single-sex--prompted over 60 students to sign a petition requesting the installation of iron bars on the buildings first floor windows...
...reporters and their editors take advantage of the disclosure laws--and take their notebooks and calculators into the campaign finance office--will there be any hope of sparking enough public outrage to spur the recalcitrant legislature into action. Contributors Against the Bottle Bill: Aluminum Association $70,000 American Iron & Steel Institute 63,499 Anheuser-Busch, Inc. 66,850 Can Manufacturer's Institute 186,401 Canada Dry Bottling Co. 37,000 Coca-Cola and bottling cos. 164,290 Adolf Coors Co. 27,270 Glass Containers Corp. 62,000 Owens Illinois, Co. 84,000 Pepsi Cola & distributors 91,261 Joseph Schlitz Brewing...