Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Every Frenchman feels the pinch of inflation, but the index does not show it because of Finance Minister Paul Ramadier's artful policy of "dipping the thermometer in cold water." The index is based on the Paris price of 213 commodities which include tennis balls, long underwear and iron stewpots, but do not include gasoline or green vegetables (up 33% in the past year). Seventeen times in the past ten months, as the index trembled toward 149.1, white-goateed Socialist Ramadier forced it down by devices ranging from a 20% slash in the Paris price of government-owned cooking...
...commission had dozens of cases on its hands. Into the office of Commission Chairman John Clerides, Q.C., staggered Joannis Christoforou, a Nicosia barber, freed after 16 days' interrogation by officers of the Special Branch; he was black and bruised from having been stripped, beaten on the head with iron bars, caned on the soles of his feet, pulled by the hair and punched repeatedly. Lawyer Clerides took his testimony, had Christoforou photographed, Xrayed...
...plant where they turn steel helmets into saucepans. Within a year they are beating plowshares back into steel helmets. The author's debatable but haunting notion that history may be repeating itself in postwar Germany is enhanced when the general is released and delivers an impassioned blood-and-iron speech at a reunion of his ex-comrades-inarms. As he raises his arms to his Prussian god and furiously demands, "Give me back my career!". Von Puckhammer goes completely, if implausibly, mad-"manic-depressive insanity,'' according to the asylum doctor, being "the occupational malady of military...
Nirmal Hriday has nursed more than half its 6,363 admissions back to health. But it is still intended primarily as a place for those beyond helping. One day last week Mother Teresa watched a new arrival, who, when he felt the thin, cotton pallet that covers the iron bedsteads, clutched it fiercely and said: "Thank God! Now I can die like a human being...
Scotch on the Rocks. Natural disasters seemed few'and far between in the long solstice of Queen Victoria's reign, but man could always make his own. and give his own reasons. The "rainbow bridge" (1 mile, 1.705 yds.) across the Tay estuary, with its curving, spidery iron girders, was the wonder of an age of railways and engineering. European princes and the Emperor of Brazil visited the marvel. Queen Victoria in her widow's weeds trundled safely across. The railway company that built it (between 1871 and 1877) said it was "a structure worthy of this...