Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week the Berber tribes were still on the rampage in the foothills of the Atlas Mountains that straddle central Morocco. Shouting horsemen, brandishing antique guns, swept into Khouribga, where the French own phosphate mines, joined up with the Arab miners and hacked 203 people to death. Near by, Moroccan iron workers in the town of Ait Amar dragged their bosses into the streets and tortured them horribly. One French engineer was tied down and forced to watch while his wife was raped repeatedly, and his six-month-old child was slowly carved to death. The killers burned every house...
...life in an Orwellian 1984. For the old, the ill, or the unemployable the journey was, in Communist eyes, good riddance. But the departure of the young and the skilled was a loss, as well as bad propaganda. In recent months a concerted serenade has sounded from behind the Iron Curtain: come home and all will be forgiven...
...Marino, the 38-square-mile republic which sits on three prongs of the Apennines in northeastern Italy, is the only country outside the Iron Curtain that has a Red government. A coalition of Communists (17) and Nenni Socialists (14) rules the country against a parliamentary opposition of Demo-Christians (26) and Neo-Fascists (3). The Communist coalition, which won by only 139 votes in 1951, has done its best to make of San Marino a showpiece of Socialist effort. It has built roads, houses, hotels; it has eliminated unemployment, established old-age pensions and given women civic rights...
...concrete floor is 70 meters long. After the pelota, a rubber-cored ball, is smacked against the wall, an opposition player must catch it and fire it back before it has bounced more than once. Points are lost by missing the ball, tossing it against the wall below an iron bar set one yard above the ground, or sending it sailing beyond the bounds of the concrete floor...
FAST TAX WRITE-OFFS will be cut back still more by the Office of Defense Mobilization, thus slowing the rapid pace of defense-industry expansion. ODM has ended 19 categories of fast write-offs (asbestos, lead, tungsten, etc.) as no longer essential, indefinitely suspended 38 others (commercial aircraft, iron ore, etc.) leaving only 20 (copper, aluminum, atomic energy, etc.) of the original 225 expansion goals still in effect. New cutbacks will either cancel or postpone some 900 applications from U.S. business for $9.3 billion worth of fast write-offs...