Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mosques were either torn down or used for different purposes. The clergy was liquidated or sent to Siberia; so 40 million Mohammedans in the Soviet Union were forced to do their worshiping secretly . . . During World War II, Russia pretended to show the free world that the Mohammedan behind the Iron Curtain had religious freedom. But this was utterly false according to testimony from Mohammedan refugees...
...every showing, 2,000 Syrians and their neighbors from other Arab countries sat entranced watching the motion-picture scenes and Commentator Lowell Thomas, and listening to the Arabic sound track booming out on the loudspeakers. At every showing there was an overflow crowd beyond the eight-foot sheet-iron fence enclosing the outdoor theater. Spectators perched like crows high in the shadows of eucalyptus trees, stood on auto tops and rooftops. Hundreds of others, defying the laws of balance and endurance of hu man muscle, stood spread-legged on the upper bars of the steel traffic-control fences outside...
...preached on the steps of the Capitol in Washington and in the shadow of the Iron Curtain, on Korean battlefields and in Hitler's former stadium in Berlin. In England, where religion has long been in decline, 2.000,000 people last spring came in penitent droves, and 38,447 pledged themselves as converts. Even when they do not understand his language or share his American tradition, people flock to hear him speak short sentences to be echoed in their own language by an interpreter. In Scandinavia, Finland, Holland. Germany and France this summer, 296,600 came. Since 1949, Billy...
...Just as the Pax Britannica made an end to tribal warfare in Africa, so our world could roll up its Iron Curtain and use it for scrap . . . This might not be so bad. But we would have been 'discovered' and colonized...
Died. Edward Hull Crump, 80, since 1909 the iron-fisted boss of Memphis and, for two decades, of the whole state of Tennessee; of a heart ailment; in Memphis. Born into grinding poverty in the Mississippi backwoods of carpetbagger days, foxy Ed Crump got control of Memphis' Shelby County when he was elected mayor at 35, moved into state politics in the '205. From 1930 (when the stock-market crash removed his last rival) until Estes Kefauver's successful insurrection in 1948, he ruled Tennessee politics with a benevolent but despotic grip, faithfully delivered, election...