Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...courtesy in respecting her privacy." But hot on the heels of this announcement, the Princess and the Commoner sped off for a weekend in the country, traveling separately but meeting at the Wills's vast, parklike estate in Berkshire. Hordes of newsmen and photographers collected outside its wrought-iron gates. Desperate for news, they moved in hungrily on the only source at hand, seven-year-old Marilyn Wills, when she strolled down to the gates. What is going on? they asked...
...Scrap Iron & Will...
...Turkish problem grows in great part out of a commendable urge, an almost feverish yearning, to become overnight a dynamic, industrial nation. For a nation forged only 32 years ago out of the scrap iron of the broken-down Ottoman Empire and the hot will of the late great Kemal Ataturk, for a people who for centuries left the complexities of commerce to their Greek and Armenian subjects, the Turks have made historic progress. In the five years since Premier Menderes left his Opposition bench in the Assembly to lead the Democrats to a stunning upset victory over the Republicans...
...assignment yet: a wide-ranging report on life in Russia and Communist China. At week's end, Max put the Cossets on a plane for Moscow, first stop on their trip to gather material for the report and try to take a comprehensive public-opinion poll behind the Iron and Bamboo Curtains...
...Government first began sending abroad a trickle of catalogues from Sears, Montgomery Ward, and a few other companies in 1946. Although they were mostly old and dog-eared, they were an instant hit. People on both sides of the Iron Curtain thumbed them to tatters. In Belgrade, Yugoslavs used them to learn English; in Athens, a shoemaker designed new shoes from the illustrations; in Djakarta, Indonesia, a Chinese tailor copied an entire Sears wedding ensemble, down to the flower girls' dresses. The impact even reached Moscow, where Russian diplomats consulted the catalogues on what to wear...