Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Delighted to read your fine article. The travel industry has been one of America's greatest aids toward good will and fine relations between the U.S. and various countries outside the Iron Curtain. Our association of more than 3,000 members is composed of 1,100 of the best travel agents in the U.S. and Canada, including American Express, plus the best travel agents in other parts of the world. THOMAS J. DONOVAN President American Society of Travel Agents New York City...
...treat the prospect of success as being itself a present success, that could turn into an ultimate disaster." The fact of Communist tyranny still remains, e.g., the division of Germany, the feverish drive for nuclear weapons, the fomenting of trouble in the Middle East and Asia, and the "iron heel" on the captive countries of Eastern Europe. Then, turning the tables, he added: "We believe that the spirit which in the last decade has provided so many self-governing peoples with political independence ought also to operate peacefully to stimulate independence for those subject to the ruthless colonialism of Soviet...
...vote in the Senate, a John W. Bricker amendment to an otherwise routine bill increasing to $3,000,000 the annual U.S. contributions to the International Labor Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. Ohio Republican Bricker insisted that the extra money be withheld until Iron Curtain representatives are expelled from the ILO. Against Administration objections that the rider would portray the U.S. as dictating to the free world, 35 Republicans and eight Democrats voted to give Bricker his way. ¶ Approve, without debate in the Senate, a bill increasing the maximum Smith Act penalty for advocating...
Something had plainly changed in London since Georgy Malenkov's enthusiastic welcome only three weeks before. The pinpricks (or possibly worse) from disgruntled exiles and refugees (there are a quarter of a million Iron Curtain exiles in Britain) had been expected and discounted. But where were the lipstick-heavy shopgirls and the schoolchildren eager to be bemused by the roly-poly Russians? The subtle, artful labors of Foreign Office schedulemakers, hoping to keep B. & K. from public contact, had proved an unnecessary precaution...
German infantry division, he marched across 8,000 miles of Russian soil, was severely wounded five times, saw his division lose twelve times its original manpower. In The Cross of Iron, Heinrich does what a good war novelist should and few can. He makes the private inferno of his war roar all over again, but as if for the very first time...