Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more friends than ever before." But trying the same line in Sydney, a strongly Labor city, Menzies ran into trouble. He was reciting the impressive statistics of industrial production (steel up 40%, electricity, 50%) when a "baiter" from the rear piped up with the question: "What about pig iron, Bob?" The crowd roared with laughter, for "Pig Iron Bob" was the bitter nickname accorded to Bob Menzies in the days before World War II, when he permitted pig iron to be exported to Japan. Menzies joined in the laughter, but his reply caused even more: "Glad you mentioned...
...first time in three years, the Communist-infiltrated Guatemalan government backpedaled sharply on its Red line. Its leaders apparently realized that their stunt of importing a huge shipment of weapons from behind the Iron Curtain had not only angered the U.S. but had also stirred up the neighbors. One afternoon last week, a grey C-47 buzzed low over Guatemala City, showering leaflets which called on all true patriots to rise and fight for Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas, exiled anti-Communist army leader now plotting a comeback from Honduras. In Honduras and in Nicaragua, U.S. Air Force Globemasters...
...first and freshest pictorial record of Indian life west of the Mississippi was made during the 1830s by iron-willed George Catlin. The civilized world had been taught to regard the Indians either as demigods (by James Fenimore Cooper) or as demihumans (by frontiersmen's reports). Catlin showed them as they were and as they lived. His pictures came as a revelation to Manhattan, London and Paris...
Died. Roy Best, 54, keg-shaped, iron-fisted,warden of Colorado's Canon City penitentiary; of a heart attack; near Colorado Springs. A onetime cowpuncher, he took charge of the penitentiary in 1932, quickly became the boy wonder of U.S. wardens. Discarding traditional convicts' stripes, he served good food, set up shops to keep prisoners busy and make the prison pay. Fond of the whip and the lash, he boasted that he was tougher than any convict, two years ago was indicted (but never convicted) for flogging five would-be escapees...
When the mob marched on Versailles in the French Revolution, palace guards ran to close the massive iron gates. They tugged in vain: the gates were rusted fast into the open position from which they had not been moved for a century. Throughout that time the French public had wandered freely in and out of the great palace where their "Father" the King, had dwelt "like a man in a glass house." Louis XIV had patiently endured this goldfish life. His successor. Louis XV who became King when he was only five years old, rebelled before...