Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hydrogen weapons in a war . . . would mean the wholesale annihilation of civilians and the destruction of big cities ..." Here the aim was the usual-to excite the excitable world into banning atom-age weapons so that the wide-open U.S. would not be able to have any, while Iron-Curtained Russia could stockpile them at will...
...remaining defendants pleaded not guilty and told almost identical stories of solitary confinements, night interrogations, beatings, hunger, thirst-always with only one way out: signing a confession. Defense Counsel Lacort passionately denounced the police methods. "Here," he said, "are methods unknown to any civilized nation this side of the Iron Curtain . . . absolutely illegal. These men are not criminals. They are victims.This is a mockery...
...them in a crisis?"). Last year a Jewish student complained that his dominant impression of Beaty's course was "reference after reference . . . made in a slurring manner, against members of the Jewish faith." In 1951 Beaty also wrote a book. Published in Dallas, it was called The Iron Curtain over America...
Catholics cited a variety of reasons for embracing Protestantism, ministers told the Herald in their replies. Among them: "Intellectual differences with Roman Catholic dogma, rebellion against [their church's] 'iron discipline' ... the simpler and more direct Protestant approach to worship." Biggest factor: "Mixed marriages, in which the Catholic party adopted the Protestant faith...
...Gadein was a stringbean of a Negro tribesman, simple and guileless as a calf, awkward as a young camel and endlessly tolerant of abuse. He wore an iron ring through his nose, and around his waist a belt of lizard skins and tinkling bells. His father Abu Zed, was the potbellied chief of three African villages, and he was thoroughly disgusted with Gadein. Smaller boys outran him and outfought him. The village girls and, indeed, the whole village, laughed at him. "Here comes the lunatic!" the young men would roar. On the night of the great feast, Abu Zed publicly...