Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Realistic Germans, east and west, expected nothing from Berlin. But the fact of Berlin hurt just the same: for indefinite years to come, Germany must live a cripple, with the Iron Curtain across its middle and the Soviet army astride its back. "We feel that we are in a long, dark tunnel," said one German. "We had wanted to see some light ahead...
...years just after World War II, when Communist guerrillas roamed and pillaged at will in the mountains of northern Greece, whole villages were often kidnaped as hostages. An estimated 40,000 Greeks, mostly civilian women and children, were rounded up from farms and firesides and taken behind the Iron Curtain. The villages that had been their homes were burned behind them...
...thousands of copies of the book, just for adding a name and biography. (One West Coast multimillionaire offered to buy $2,000 worth of books if Who's Who would just include a long list of his wife's French forebears.) But Editor Sammons has an iron-clad rule that "you cannot buy, bribe or flatter your way into...
...remarkable thing about them is their enormous age. The iron ore above the flint bed has been dated by Professor Patrick Hurley of M.I.T., who estimates that it is 1.3 billion years old. Since the fossil algae and fungi lie far below it, they are probably something like 2 billion years...
...Walter Piston). In the person of Harlow Shapley, he has given a new view of the geography of the universe, and through Paul Mangelsdorf, he has helped develop hybrid corn. Of Harvard's scientists, six have won Nobel Prizes.* Its chemists, biologists, and physicians have invented the iron lung, developed a treatment for pernicious anemia, and through the work of Bacteriologist John Enders, laid the groundwork for a safe polio vaccine. One scientist, the late Edwin J. Cohn (TIME, Oct. 12), made the blood bank possible; another, Chemist Robert Woodward, developed a theory that may lead to the synthesis...