Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...highest Roman Catholic prelate, Bernard Cardinal Griffin, in a pastoral letter read in all Roman Catholic churches in England and Wales, urged British Catholics to "act with restraint and dignity" during the Russians' visit. but to set aside a day of prayer for Christians persecuted behind the Iron Curtain...
Boom & Bust. All of Inco's production came from its famed mines near Sudbury, Ont., where the company has drilled a 396-mile spiderweb of underground tunnels fanning out through five mines. Sudbury is to nickel what Minnesota's Mesabi Range is to iron, at one time supplied more than 80% of the free world's nickel. But the credit for making it pay off goes to a pair of hardheaded metalmen with the know-how and vision to turn nickel into one of the world's most important minerals: Inco's onetime President...
Coupled with this curiosity was dissatisfaction with being cut off from the West. Many of the students even used the Russian equivalent of "Iron Curtain" to express this. They wanted to have access to objective information about the West; they wanted to read Western books, to see Western movies, and to be able to travel freely...
This discontent with the Iron Curtain is shown by the considerable circulation in Russia of books, phonograph records, and other items supposedly forbidden. The black market thrives on such goods. Every Sunday morning on the Kuznetsky Most Street in Moscow, for instance, there is a black market in books. There it is easy to pick up copies of books in short supply, especially western ones in Russian translations, such as the works of Dickens. Other goods, like cloth and clothing, cars, and theater tickets can also be purchased through the black mahket with enough money...
Malia noted concern among students about the barriers against the West, and reported that the phrase "Iron Curtain" is used and understood in Russia. The Russians are anxious to learn about the West and are particularly interested in American literature, of which they have very little recent knowledge...