Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were not for that squirrel-headed general, Harry would be in Stalag 17 or better in Yakutsk digging for iron...
Party-Lining Baritone Paul Robeson, 58, battling for six years to get a passport in order to visit behind the Iron Curtain, was as far from the promised land as ever. The U.S. Court of Appeals unanimously upheld a dismissal of Robeson's suit against Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Robeson's perennial dilemma: until he unclams about his past and present Red ties he will not even be considered for a passport...
...pawings mixed with a few punches had Patterson going backward for the greater part of three rounds. But Patterson was more chastened than hurt; he came back in the final rounds with a crowd-rousing demonstration of a light-heavy frappéing the brains of a cast-iron heavyweight. Jackson somehow stayed on his feet, twice taking the scenic route back to his corner, but always up and eager for the next round. "How can Jackson stand up under that?" a woman asked in the stands. "It's not human!" Said her escort: "He's not human...
...match of the tournament at Sandwich, England. England's Mrs. Roy Smith laid a 150-yd. iron shot on the 36th green, easily sank her second putt to defeat America's Polly Riley, one up, as Britain's determined band of women amateur golfers won the Curtis Cup for the second time in nine tries from their American cousins. The score...
...church's strength consisted only of its external organization," writes Gaiters, "one would be compelled to say that the Communist regimes had been successful against her because, as things are today, there no longer exists an independent ecclesiastical organization beyond the Iron Curtain: all is directed and controlled by the state." State bureaus of ecclesiastical affairs even write pastoral letters for bishops' signatures...