Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pine coffin was imported from Cincinnati ...The iron in the shovel that dug his grave was imported from Pittsburgh ... They buried him in a New York coat and a Boston pair of shoes and a pair of breeches from Chicago and a shirt from Cincinnati. The South didn 't furnish a thing on earth for that funeral but the corpse and the hole in the ground...
...Iron Hand. Atlanta Therapist Jean Harsch cites Rosalynn Carter and Betty Talmadge as examples of strong women who can appear pretty and helpless. "The rest of the country," she says, "makes the mistake of seeing those as ingrained ways of being rather than learned skills." One Episcopal priest who has spent eight years in the South says he has never seen so many "brutally powerful women. They will say, 'Oh, don't say damn or I'll faint' and then castrate the man they're with...
...ecumenical Mass in Seoul's Roman Catholic Myongdong Cathedral, marking the 57th anniversary of a Korean uprising against Japanese colonial rule. A group of political and religious opposition leaders decided to use the occasion to issue a "Declaration for the Restoration of Democracy," protesting the iron rule of Park Chung Hee and calling on him to step down...
Kruger has from time to time advocated a new deal for his country's African population and has helped to desegregate some of the country's best hotels and restaurants. He is far better known, however, for his kragdadigheid (iron-fistedness). He has defended the actions of his police to the hilt, declaring them to be "in the forefront of the fight to combat Communism [which is] infiltrating the country." Asked why the police did not use rubber bullets during the June rioting in Soweto in which 176 were killed, Kruger replied: "Rubber bullets give the impression...
...tente, they have developed a voracious appetite for Western products, buying everything from consumer goods to entire factories. One result: the economic woes of the capitalist world, to which Communist planners initially thought they would be immune, by last year made themselves felt on the other side of the Iron Curtain. Inflation sharply raised the prices of the Western goods that the Communists buy, while the 1974-75 recession dried up what few Western markets had existed for Eastern European goods. So Comecon's trade deficit with the West went from $5 billion in 1974 to $12 billion...