Search Details

Word: ironing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...humor of the story comes both from Karp's odd eye for detail and from the picture of Hayyem's father, "the scholar," which Hyyam's oblique remarks create. When in the synagogue he is nudging his father to ask for money, he thinks, "I was faced with an iron will pretending to be religious ecstasy." The story is so readable because of the suspense with which we wait for fate to turn Hayyem's small successes into monstrous failures. His greatest early triumph, losing his virginity ("Without any kind of preliminaries, on top of a flour sack...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: i.e. | 12/20/1956 | See Source »

...moment of their arrival in Australia, many of the athletes began inquiring about their chances of finding asylum in the West. It was not an easy decision to make. Few, if any, of the athletes were dedicated Communists, but an Olympic champion is an important man behind the Iron Curtain and is generally sure of a guaranteed income far beyond the average, and many special privileges. Defection would mean losing all of these sure advantages for a doubtful future in a strange country. And failure to return might mean reprisals against relatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Parting in Melbourne | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

...first economic consequence of the new independence hit Poland last week. For lack of coal, iron foundries and chemical factories closed down, other heavy industries went on part-time, and the coal-burning railways canceled some 75 regular train schedules. Rushing to the Silesian mining center of Katowice, Wladyslaw Gomulka told the miners that their out put had slid off calamitously since they tasted freedom. Unless they spent more time in the pits and less at meetings, and unless they began obeying mine bosses' orders again, said Gomulka, Poland would not have enough coal to send abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Crisis in Coal | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

...trouble with the iron lung and its portable little brother, the chest respirator, is that they make the patient breathe in a fixed rhythm and give him just the same amount of air each time. Now researchers at Nashville's Vanderbilt University report an electronic device which can be hooked up to either type of respirator and lets the patient breathe more naturally-when his own nervous system dictates, and as deeply. It works by electrodes taped to the chest: they pick up electrical nerve impulses intended for the paralyzed breathing muscles, divert them to an electrical amplifier which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Dec. 17, 1956 | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

...IRON-ORE shortage is forcing U.S. Steel Corp. to keep 50 of its Great Lakes ore carriers sailing to Jan. 1, and Army Corps of Engineers will hold Sault Ste. Marie locks open until then, instead of normal Dec. 15 closedown. But ore movement will drop to about 77 million tons from last year's 87 million tons. Reason: strikes by steelworkers and lake seamen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: TIME CLOCK, Dec. 17, 1956 | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

Previous | 103 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 | 110 | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 | 120 | 121 | 122 | 123 | Next