Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Razor at the Throat." Returning, Joe said that "an Iron Curtain has been pulled down." He cried that "we can only hear evidence about the conference that is damaging to Mr. Cohn, Mr. Carr and myself. Suddenly, halfway through this, we are not going to get the complete story." The fact of the Administration conference, said McCarthy, cast new doubt on who was really behind the "issuance of the smear that has held my committee up for weeks and has allowed Communists to continue in defense plants, handling secret documents, with a razor at the throat of the American people...
...delay, the Communists could also take military advantage of the free man's own virtues-his reluctance to squander life unnecessarily if there is a chance of peace, his sense of honest dealing which keeps him from waging war while talking peace. No such inhibitions bother the iron men of Communism...
...victory. There was one last cutting and clubbing, and the helpless French pilots saw it: bayonet, knife and grenade in one ghastly arena less than 1,000 feet wide. Bearded French veterans, coal-black Senegalese and tough little Vietnamese even slugged at the Reds with chunks of wood and iron from their broken strong points. "It was like a spectacle of wild beasts in a Roman amphitheater," said one pilot afterward...
Deal with Britain. The Commodity Credit Corp., said Benson, is negotiating with Britain to sell butter at the world market price of 47? a Ib. (v. 63? to 75? in the U.S.). If the deal goes through, it may lower the surplus by 80 million Ibs. But outside of Iron Curtain nations, which have a serious butter shortage, there are few other countries to which the U.S. can sell butter without hurting local suppliers and other butter-exporting nations...
...Dark. The most primitive of these barbarians were the Guaharibos. They lived in the depths of the forest, and Gheerbrant concluded that they "had remained on earth by an anthropological anachronism." They had no implements of iron or stone, not even a hatchet or a knife. They did not know how to build huts or make canoes, did no farming and went about naked. Sometimes they practiced cannibalism. Mostly they ate what was easily come upon: "wild berries, marsh flowers full of earthworms, caterpillars and insects, and even earth." About all that distinguished them from animals was that they could...