Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prospects for a double win are dim, for the Tigers bring with them an "Iron Five" quintet which plays almost every minute of every game with great success. Thus far, Princeton has beaten by at least nine points every Ivy opponent it has faced, although its nine wins do not include one over Dartmouth, also 9 and 0 in League play...
Recent Western visitors to the Peking area saw cotton blowing away unharvested while the local peasantry concentrated on rebuilding Peking's showy Tien An Men Square. The great campaign to produce steel and pig iron in homemade blast furnaces created even more widespread labor shortages. Factories producing textiles for export were obliged to cut out a shift in order to free workers to stoke the ubiquitous furnaces...
...system. In early December 70% of the railroad cars moving in and out of Shanghai were serving the blast furnaces. To provide the city with even the barest minimum of food, railwaymen were driven to perching live hogs or baskets of fowl atop cars already overloaded with ore, pig iron or coal...
...idea that even Maverick's satiric creators might envy: Danny Thomas, as an immigrant tailor in the Old West, stands the taunts of the town nasties as long as he can and then swaps his pressin' iron for the shootin' kind...
Religion is the "single greatest obstacle to the Communist criminal conspiracy today," Herbert A. Philbrick, author of I Led Three Lives, told the Divinity School Forum last night. Deep religious faith, he said, "is keeping the spirit of resistance alive behind the Iron Curtain...