Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Recognizing that the ancient feud between Italy and Yugoslavia over Trieste was a potential source of war and was distracting Italy from other serious problems, she 'helped get U.S. backing for a brass-tacks London negotiating conference, meanwhile worked hard in Rome to help iron out details of a Trieste settlement that still works ("No one will ever know," wrote Milan's major daily Corriere della Sera, at the time of the Trieste settlement, "how much Italy owes to this fragile blonde...
...Stalinism after 43 years at Stalin's side, Molotov was shoved into the background during the new era of debunking the old dictator and cultivating such longtime Stalin enemies as Tito. But now that the fabric of Stalin's empire was rent by Titoism plus destalinization, Old Iron Pants could point the finger at Khrushchev & Co. as a pack of blunderers. His new job was one which would enable him to do literally this, if so minded. Although functioning in part as a kind of auditor general's department, the Ministry of State Control means what...
From the dinky little salvage vessel Daiei Maru (a misnomer, for it means Great Prosperity), Oyama plunged into Nagasaki Bay in hopes of salvaging enough scrap iron to make it worth the effort and risk. Four times he went down 192 ft. with nothing untoward. Raised to the Daiei Maru's deck after his fifth, hour-long descent, he collapsed in pain. His shipmates, unversed in medicine but with a well-grounded fear of the bends, slapped Oyama's helmet back on him, stuffed his diving suit with lead weights, and dumped him back over the side-down...
...Daiei Maru had to seek more sheltered waters. And so began one of the most amazing treatments in the history of medicine. Oyama was hoisted up, the ship moved to calmer waters, and he was promptly dunked again in 72 ft. After twelve hours of sitting there on an iron bar, Oyama signaled frantically to be raised: he was chilled to the marrow and had lost the use of his legs. His shipmates took him ashore, put him in a trough used for boiling seaweed, and lit a fire under him. But the air in his suit inflated with...
...heard that hundreds of wounded Egyptians were suffering for lack of water and medical facilities in a hospital, he browbeat the French command into sending a water truck. When a French-speaking Egyptian woman pleaded for milk for her five small children, Roy rammed his jeep through the iron blind of a locked milk store. British MPs warned him that pillaging was a crime for which he could be shot. "O.K., go ahead and shoot," said Roy. He gave one case of powdered milk to the woman, delivered a jeep load to a hospital...