Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the magazine Iron Age predicting that customers "can look forward to nothing but woe" until well into 1956, a grey market was already starting...
Jiri Hajek first revealed himself to be a Communist during the 1948 coup, when the Iron Curtain clanked down on Czechoslovakia. As a professor of international relations, he later proved his devotion to Big Brother by writing a book called The Wilson Legend in the History of the Czechoslovak Republic, a sleazy effort to debunk Czechoslovakia's esteem for Woodrow Wilson. For this and similar services, Hajek last May was made Czech ambassador to London...
...wandering American. Moscow, long hidden by the Iron Curtain, a source of conspiracy, strange dogmas and menacing dangers, is a legitimate object of U.S. curiosity. With some 5.000.000 people within its city limits and another 2,000.000 in surrounding suburbia, it is probably the third-largest city in the world...
Getting on in years, Reese decided to visit his parents' grave in Germany. But he would not pay a few pfennigs to the cemetery gatekeeper. One legend has it that he tried to climb the fence, impaled himself on a rusty iron spike and died of blood poisoning. Another version: he died of apoplexy when asked...
...matter-triumphant crusaders, fierce sultans and pashas, sultry harem girls-today seems mawkish. Probably only his scenes drawn on the barricades during the 1830 revolution still hold men's imagination. But if Delacroix's content is dated, his art is not. He attacked his craft with an iron will, raising color to a central, expressive role and making discoveries in form and line that still delight...