Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thirds of Russia is either barren or too cold for cultivation under present methods, but underground, say Soviet geologists, there is half the world's iron and almost as much of its coal, half its known petroleum, one-third of its manganese...
Eight-week tryouts for all boards will start for all freshmen, sopohmores, and juniors interested. Casting aside his usual iron handed grip over the Crime's money sacks, the Business Managers last night announced that there would be free beer for all comers...
India, the most populous nation outside the Iron Curtain, has leaned so far backwards not being anti-Communist that she often appears to be pro. This, despite the Western trend of her economy, her parliamentary democracy, her British legal and military tradition, and her own good reasons to fear the rising might of Communist China. "We propose to keep on the closest terms with other countries," Jawaharlal Nehru insists, "unless they themselves create difficulties...
...these signs, 74-year-old Mohammed Mossadegh, after 81 days in jail, was in his best fighting trim. As Premier, he had stood off the British Empire from his bedroom; lying languidly on his iron bed, he had dangled and defied coveys of U.S. diplomats; on the rostrum, shaking, sighing and crying, he had stirred street mobs to frenzy. Now he had taken his act to court...
...multicolored marble, past statues and buttresses inscribed with Ataturk's maxims and bas-reliefs depicting his victories-until it halted at a 42-ton sarcophagus carved from a single block of red, black and white marble. The sarcophagus was lit only by the light from a huge wrought-iron window...