Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Canada, as in the U.S., government farm price-support programs have piled up mountains of butter and wheat. Last week Canada arranged two neat deals to sell part of the worrisome surplus behind the Iron Curtain for cash. To Red-run Czechoslovakia will go 300,000 lbs. of butter at 42½? a lb.-15½? less than the government's own purchasing price. For $19 million, grain-hungry Poland will get 10 million bu. of low-grade wheat...
...into the harness of a gadget called the pneumograph. When he switched it on, Jimmy's breathing pattern showed up as two wildly irregular lines on the moving chart. Then Dr. Harrington fitted Jimmy into a chest respirator (which he is experimenting with as a substitute for the iron lung) and a positive-pressure breathing apparatus, both of which, working together, made Jimmy's breathing deeper and more regular...
...Washington, General Nathanael Greene and a host of other officers, turned out miniatures on ivory on the side. Once, when painting General Washington in 1777, Peale found himself eyewitnessing a high moment in history. An aide handed Washington a dispatch. After one glance, Washington for a moment lost his iron control, jubilantly shouted, "Burgoyne is taken," then quickly resumed his solemn pose...
...Spiritual Iron Curtain." Roman Catholicism, says Father Witcutt, conflicts with philosophy ("It does not allow for any advance in philosophy made since the 13th century"), with physical science ("by insisting upon the now indefensible Aristotelian doctrine" that qualities, such as color, are objective instead of being in our senses) and with history. Back in the Anglican fold, he holds that the Bishop of Rome became pre-eminent in the church only because the Mohammedans "over whelmed the Patriarchs of Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem, isolated him of Constantinople, and left only the Patri arch of Rome in his former authority...
...high-church Anglican curate in London's run-down suburb of East Ham. The freedom of the Church of England is a relief to him. "More and more the Latin liturgy had become an annoyance to me," he writes, and "I had grown to detest the spiritual Iron Curtain which divides Roman Catholics from their fellow countrymen ... I am sorry to say that the Roman Catholic, and particularly the priest, despises the Church of England. He does not consider its clergy to be true priests, and he despises it for its lack of congregations and its empty pews...