Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although imports will rise less than gross national product, they will reach $11 billion in 1960, a 26% gain during the decade. Biggest gainers will be bauxite (up 97.5%), crude oil (up 103%) and iron ore (up 300%). Biggest losers: tin (down 5%), wool (down 10%). Assuming that foreign aid ends, exports will edge up only 1%, but they will all be paid for. U.S. capital outflow will have doubled...
...came the inevitable uprising (actually touched off by a priest, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla), and for 50 years Mexico was a chaos of violence, weakness and naive hope. Under the iron dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz, the clergy briefly regained its privileges, but the revolutionary constitution of 1917 again swept the church aside in one angry, Marx-muscled blow. By 1928, only 197 priests were permitted in Mexico-out of 4,593 some four years before. One provincial governor tried to force priests to marry. Revolutionary generals rode into churches on horseback, smashing altars, and many churches were converted to movie...
...Communist enemy, regardless of any momentary change of tactics, regardless of any treaty the Kremlin may sign, is bent on conquering the entire world-the United States not excluded-and remolding it in the form of the totalitarian dictatorship and slave economy imposed on the people behind the Iron Curtain in Russia, Rumania, Outer Mongolia and on the Chinese mainland...
...governments of their own choosing, at free elections, by secret ballot and without outside interference; 5) emphasize that we seek nothing that belongs to anyone else; that there are no strings attached to our offers; that all we ask in return for reciprocal arms reduction is the dropping of Iron and Bamboo Curtains -the opening of frontiers not only for international inspection teams but also for plain, ordinary people...
...Escape," I would answer. "No problem of coexistence on the river. No Iron curtain, only the Lars Anderson Bridge. Why, for all it matters, the Czars might still be ruling Russia...