Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...federal workers must, in the judgment of department and agency heads, be "clearly consistent" with the interests of national security. The order recognizes that an employee may be loyal, yet still be a security risk. The homosexual may be easy prey to blackmail. The person with relatives behind the Iron Curtain may be exposed to overwhelming pressures. The alcoholic may unintentionally blab secrets...
...Soviet industry is lagging. Pig-iron prouction for 1954 was less than the planned figure, and rolled steel is in short supply. Production is below quota in all other metals, in oil, coal and timber...
...days after the Central Committee meeting, the Supreme Soviet, most unanimous of the world's governments, met in Moscow. After. dutifully applauding the Khrushchev plan, the members flew back to their home territories to tell hungry Soviet masses about their new diet of iron...
...strong is Russia? Last week, in an analysis of comparative economic growth between the Iron Curtain and the Western powers, prepared for the Joint Congressional Committee on the Economic Report, the U.S. got an answer that went far beyond the usual statistics-numbers of divisions, fleets of bombers, supplies of atom bombs...
...truce yield? "We left an enemy on the 38th parallel, right where he started." lamented Clark. "True, we had stopped his immediate aggression to take over South Korea, but we left him there better trained...We left him there arrogant. He had made the people behind the Iron Curtain think that he had won a victory, and we left him ready and poised to strike again, as he did in Indo-China...