Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oaken-hearted Konrad Adenauer, who has won a lot of political victories by force of character and the iron logic of his policies, came through again last week, but not without difficulties. His normally ashen face lightly tanned after a long Swiss vacation, he took autocratic command of his Christian Democratic Union's annual conference at Stuttgart and sought to silence all talk of picking his successor or changing his policies...
...lights for the occasion, and at the entrance to a hole dug in the ground, a colonel of the Russian signal corps was on hand to explain it all. Ten feet below, its entrance a hole cut in the roof by the Russians, lay the tunnel itself: a cast-iron tube about six feet in diameter and 500-600 yards long, crammed with electronic equipment, cables, tape recorders, ventilating apparatus and pumps of both British and American make. At the East German end, cables led out of the main body of the tunnel to a separate chamber where they were...
West Germany's Supreme Court ruled that the nation's onetime spy boss, jittery Otto John, 47, whose confused East-West loyalties led him to use the Iron Curtain as a revolving door, must stay in prison and there await trial for treason...
...Inexorable Laws of History went their iron way last week, sending the varsity lacrosse team down under Princeton to 15 to 2 oblivion, but then flaunted May Day and abandoned the scene, washing what hands Inexorable Laws might have...
...apartment last week, Inventor Baschet proudly displayed the result of his nightwork: a monstrous collection of iron plates, steely spirals, glass rods in spiky rows, pneumatic cushions of red-and-white plastic, wires, bolts and screws, hammers, dampers. One instrument looked like a pair of inflated pontoons tangled in elephant grass and topped by the huge backbone of a fish. He tapped, squeezed, rubbed, twanged, and out of the contraptions came an amazing series of sounds-some of them hootingly sepulchral, some barkingly savage, some bewitching in the echoing tintinnabulations they set in motion. "Here you see the future...