Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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World War II destroyed Russia's livestock for a second time. It also loosened the Kremlin's iron grip on the Russian countryside. Peasant families nibbled at the state farms, decollectivized an estimated six million acres. They hoarded the grain and refused to give it up to the commissars. At first they got away with it. Fearful of massive famine in the wake of war, the Kremlin temporized with the muzhik's lust for land that he could call his own. The Council of Ministers agreed to let the state farms be worked by family groups...
...will come to Evanston. Among them: Germany's Bishop Otto Dibelius, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Norway's Bishop Eivind Berggrav, Bishops G. Bromley Oxnam and Henry Knox Sherrill and Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr from the U.S.* But Dr. Visser 't Hooft was hopeful that delegates from the Iron Curtain churches would be there, too. Said he: "It's a way to emphasize Christian fellowship, and some of these churches have a great deal to give...
...first, entitled "Peter's Chains," addressed itself sharply to the persecution of Catholic priests and communicants behind the Iron Curtain. "We in the free countries," the bishops said, "still speak of a cold war; these men and women are enduring the bitterest, the bloodiest persecution in all history...
...found throughout Europe. The jawbone, according to the scientists' report in the British Museum Bulletin, fared even worse: it proved to be the jaw of a modern ape, probably an orangutan, which died at the age of ten. It had been artificially colored with potassium bichromate and an iron salt to make it look old, and its teeth had been pared to make them look more or less human. Unanswered still was the question of who had planted the fake. Dawson, who died in 1916 and whose monument stands near the Piltdown gravel pit, may have doctored the jawbone...
...Literary Life. In Milwaukee, Mrs. Eleanor Trier told officials that she had stolen a jacket, steam iron, and skirt from a department store only because a stranger had asked her to do "research" for a book on shoplifting, promised to mention her name in the book...