Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loose-lipped legislators can't be muzzled, they should be hobbled, so that at least we may be spared the indignity of having vacationing Senators and Representatives hopping around and through the Iron Curtain with a foot in their mouths...
...Money Burgess, 44, and Donald Duart Maclean, 42. Last week the British government, prodded by the revelations of Vladimir Petrov, the Russian MVD boss who defected in Australia, told a bit more about the British spies who escaped in 1951 and are now apparently alive somewhere behind the Iron Curtain. The 3,500-word white paper was not the whole story, but with the facts contributed by Petrov, it made possible for the first time a cohesive account of The Case of the Missing Spies...
...Only Takes Two. Sylvester seldom peddles nightclub scandal, but likes to take a good-natured poke at such cafe society figures as the interior decorator for neurotics who "specializes in furniture made of overwrought iron" and the Sultan's son who "drives a foreign elephant." He is an authority on functional (if fictitious) drinks, e.g., the Mambo cocktail ("two of these and you can't stop shaking"), the Instant cocktail ("two drinks and you have your hangover immediately") and the Do-It-Yourself cocktail ("two of them and no one can help you"). And he has, to date...
Further expansion in most industries, said he, will push capacity beyond the goals set for defense needs. From now on, no more write-off certificates will be given for 26 types of expansion. Among them: aluminum plants, steel-ingot and pig-iron facilities, airports, diesel locomotives and ore carriers. But Flemming increased some other goals. Among them: commercial aircraft, research and development laboratories, copper plants...
...final at Richmond, not only his putter but all of his clubs were hot. His drives carried true; his iron shots were invariably dead on the pin. His putting was steady and deadly. He was eight up at the end of the first...