Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work together, we may get along all right ourselves, and do a lot to help our neighbors in the world, some of whom, on both sides of the Iron Curtain, seem to face even greater problems than we do ourselves." His brief speech done, Churchill turned to Nixon and Dulles and asked, "How was that, all right?" They nodded, and he marched off to a waiting convertible...
...their concert grands, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame. Theodore E. Steinway gives constant proof that out of great tension may come rich harmony." Edward R. Murrow.......LL.D...
...playing steady, accurate golf. Not until the 18th hole of the last round was he in real trouble. Then he hooked his drive deep into the rough. Trees blocked his route to the green. But by then he had the tough course licked. He curved a long, lovely iron shot out onto another fairway, was on the apron of the green in three, chipped up neatly and dropped a tricky, downhill putt for his par five. He had finished with an impressive 284, and he was ahead of the pack...
...Kooning. A two-man affair by deliberate museum decision, it made for a forceful though far from representative showing. Shahn, whose art had its roots in proletarian fury and has now become fashionable, topped the list of lesser prizewinners with an $800 award. Many exhibitors, notably those of the Iron Curtain countries, seemed stifled by their messages. Shahn, on the contrary, is lost without one. Shahn's earliest work on exhibition was a wonderfully gentle idealization of Sacco and Vanzetti done...
...retelling the same old preposterous melodrama. In his account, only Franco bombs and bullets ever kill women and children, only Franco soldiers ever murder their prisoners, only the Franco side ever lies. Frequently, Author Bowers sounds more like a pamphleteer than a competent historian, e.g., "It is ironical that the diplomatic representative of every nation soon to be trodden neath the iron heel of Hitler was openly smiling on the totalitarian crusade against democracy in Spain." Bowers writes much better when he is telling of his prewar rambles around the Spain he loved so well: Holy Week in Seville, wine...