Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Meanwhile, from behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard. There has been, in fact, a great strategic change in the world during the past year. That precious intangible, the initiative, is becoming ours. Our policy, not limited to mere reaction against crises provoked by others, is free to develop along lines of our choice...
...dictating he likes to sit on the edge of the desk and swing a putter or a nine iron. Or sometimes he slips a specially designed 5-lb. weight over the toe of his left shoe, and swings the leg back & forth to exercise the knee which he injured during his West Point football career...
...crisis could be dramatized in cold, simple arithmetic: the Christian Democrats, who govern Italy, hold only 44.4% of the seats in the Chamber of Deputies. Italy's Communist Party, the largest, strongest, richest and smartest this side of the Iron Curtain, controls 36.9%. With a switch of only 24 seats-4%-from the center to the Communist-controlled side (i.e., Communists and the Red Socialists of Pietro Nenni), the Red left would be the dominant bloc in Italian politics. And on the far right, with 4.9% of the Chamber's seats, sit the neo-Fascists-often willing helpers...
...null mountain of ore was discovered seven years ago in a worldwide iron search by U.S. Steel Corp. Since then, Orinoco Mining Co., U.S. Steel's Venezuelan subsidiary, has been working on the problems of how to get the stuff out of such a remote, tropical place. Cerro Bolivar ore coats the top of the mountain like a turtle shell. It is brought down in 93-car trains which have to be eased cautiously down a 3% grade for nine miles under smoking brakes. Against the chance that the brakes might fail, special sidetracks were built to switch...
Standing on a dock edging the black Caroni River one day last week, Venezuela's President Marcos Perez Jimenez pressed a button, started a conveyer belt, and sent baseball-sized chunks of iron ore tumbling into the hold of a Swedish freighter. When the ship was properly "topped off," her hatchcovers were closed and she steamed downstream with the first cargo of ore for the U.S. from the steel-hungry 20th century's greatest ore find, Cerro Bolivar...