Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the loss, Captain Carlene Rhodes was not overly disappointed. "The team played really well and we learned an awful lot from them," she said yesterday. "We know what we have to iron out now, and I think we can go the rest of the season undefeated," she said yesterday...
Died. Lieut. General John W. ("Iron Mike") O'Daniel, 81, commander of one of the first American military-assistance groups in Indochina; in San Diego, Calif. O'Daniel earned his nickname after surviving a German bullet that passed through his left cheek during World War I. A scrappy, colorful officer, he rose through the ranks between wars to lead the 3rd Infantry Division against Nazi Germany, capturing Nurnberg on Hitler's birthday in 1945 and liberating Hermann Goring's outsized trousers ("That's a lot of pants," O'Daniel crowed). His militant anti-Communism...
...convalesced at Walter Reed Army Medical Center from the stroke he suffered last New Year's Eve, iron-willed and gallant Justice William O. Douglas, 76, was frequently more optimistic about his progress than his doctors. Medical experts questioned whether he would regain use of his left leg and arm, paralyzed by the stroke (TIME, Feb. 17). Doctors were also reportedly disturbed by his mental as well as physical state. Douglas objected to a psychoneurological examination and complained about plots to kill him or remove him from the bench. Last week, six days after his return to the court...
...Eastern Europeans are being forced to foot part of the bill. They will pay $3.3 billion for Soviet gas and oil this year compared with $1.2 billion in 1973. Furthermore, prices of oil and other key Soviet export commodities (nonferrous metals, iron, cotton) will now be reviewed each year and will be brought in line with world prices, perhaps by 1978. That will hurt Rumania...
Sincerity in society is like an iron girder in a house of cards...