Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acts of subordinates, even their crimes, Scelba was scathing: the U.S. Secretary of State was not believed culpable because one of his subordinates, Alger Hiss, was found guilty of a crime. Britain's Foreign Secretary was not replaced when two of his subordinates vanished behind the Iron Curtain. "In Russia," added Scelba wryly, "the head of the police was executed because he had supposedly been serving capitalism, but I am not aware that his superiors were so much as touched...
...month hiatus when a Socialist coalition held power (1947-48), the wily old political juggler has run Japan since a few months after the surrender. Under the U.S. occupation, he was a man of tough but resilient rubber: since sovereignty, he has been a man of iron. Critics call him malicious, contemptuous, autocratic. Even his admirers sometimes agree-adding, however, that he can be witty, urbane and charming. Recently, a top U.S. diplomat was asked: "Whom do you regard as the five most influential men in Japan?" The answer: "Yoshida, Yoshida, Yoshida, Yoshida and Yoshida...
...Lear was a well-rounded enough soldier to ride on the U.S. horsemen's team in the 1912 Olympics, smart enough to serve as General Dwight Eisenhower's ETO Deputy Commander in 1945. But he will probably rack up his chief fame in military annals as the iron-willed disciplinarian ("No mistake should ever go uncorrected") who nearly marched the brogans off a high-spirited battalion of trainees in 1941 after the lads had yoo-hooed at some barelegged girls on a Memphis golf course, where, unfortunately for the G.I.s, the general was also having a game...
...board of trustees, of the 1300 or so students who know they are getting an education that is second-rate. It springs from a college president who, though obsequious to the all-white board of trustees, rules the faculty--men and women of his own race--with an iron band...
Beaty's career of public anti-Semitism regan in 1951 with the publication of his book The Iron Curtain over America, called by Gerald L. K. Smith as "the treatest of its kind ever to appear in print." According to a student at the University, Beaty's English courses consist chiefly of "reference after reference . . . made in a slurring manner against members of the Jewish faith...