Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those behind the Iron Curtain, B. & K.'s visit here was a tremendous shock...
...response to a proposal by the University of Chicago's student council, the Moscow radio announced that the Soviet Union would open its iron doors a tiny notch: in 1957, one University of Chicago student will be accepted at Moscow University for one year...
...thorough examination showed no sign of polio. X rays revealed nothing. There seemed to be nothing wrong with Charlie's heart or nervous system. Yet his breathing and swallowing were labored. So the doctors put him in an iron lung. Bit by bit the explanation came out: Charlie's mother-in-law had become angry with him, evidently wanted him out of the way so her daughter could marry a Groote Island aborigine. So, Charlie gasped from his iron lung: "I bin sung." Explained a fellow tribesman, acting as interpreter: "Him bin sung song of dreamtime snake. When...
...wind box" (iron lung) took care of Charlie's breathing and shook his faith in the infallibility of tribal magic. To clinch it, the doctors gave him his tucker (food) intravenously and by stomach tube. Charlie, half-starved, had wandered six days in the bush without food. As he regained some strength, Charlie seemed to regain some will to live...
...spent in a roomy house on Manhattan's 14th Street. Though he was "a very town-bred small person," little Henry had to walk no farther north than the corner of 18th Street and Fourth Avenue to find an estate with "grounds," and peep wide-eyed through the iron railing at an esoteric menagerie of fawns, peacocks and guinea fowl. But usually the James boys romped close to home, and little Henry tagged behind "big brother Bill" like a shadow...