Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Committee. New soundings should be taken, he said, on the chances of negotiating a workable scheme of international atomic control with the Russians. Wiley's proposal merited cool-headed consideration. One reason: no one has yet disproved the theory that the Russians, faced with imminent cracks behind their Iron Curtain, may be looking for a long cold-war breathing spell...
...pretty Queen were vacationing, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi heard the news of the failure. With Queen Soraya,* he boarded his private twin-engine plane and flew to safety in Bagdad (where he landed unrecognized, asking the name ' of a good hotel). In Teheran, Mossadegh, confined to his iron cot and closely guarded, counted one more obstacle out of his way. Now, though his unhappy country has lost one more source of stability, there was little left to challenge him except the Communist-led mobs, who now sing his praises, but whose leaders await his downfall to grab power...
...chateau and talked about Candide. In Augsburg, a Lutheran pastor who spoke no English gave them a lecture on the Reformation, and they tried but failed to get into the monastery where Luther once lived. Next on the list was Faust, but since Weimar is behind the Iron Curtain, they had to settle for Frankfurt am Main, where Goethe was born...
...Samson the house of his enemies, but the house of his own flesh and blood. And I grieve for the nation which gave him birth, that left the trodden and the known for the vast and secret continent, and made there songs of heim-wee and longing, and the iron laws...
Provocation. In Hartford, Conn., fined $50 and costs for hitting John H. Williams with an iron pipe, Chef Charles Cokinos of the Starlite Restaurant explained: "He only ordered a cup of coffee. He wasn't spending enough money...