Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suddenly the script was changed, and the security police mysteriously withdrew. In a mood both exuberant and ugly, the young crowd swept forward again, seized an auto and used it as a battering ram to smash down the iron gates that barred their way. They went tumbling into the halls and corridors, raced up the stairs and rampaged through the 500 government offices. Armfuls of official papers fluttered down from smashed windows. A fully armed company of paratroopers stood idly by, joking with the rioters, accepting beer and sandwiches from ecstatic girls. All at once, there was a martial stir...
...Westminster College, Missouri, where Sir Winston Churchill in 1946 focused the thoughts and fears of the world into a memorable phrase -"Iron Curtain" -the Old Warrior's cousin, Irish Critic Sir Shane Leslie, passed on a few newsy nubbles about his famed relative: "You know, his father never thought that Winston had the brains for college. Winston got his education as a subaltern in the campaigns of the India frontier. He took with him to India three books, Macaulay's Essays, Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and a work by the Irish historian...
...perhaps about it," cried the News Chronicle. Despite preshow misgivings that Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard might be axed by Lenin rather than Lopakhin, London's critics cheered last week for the famed Moscow Art Theater, in its first appearance this side of the Iron Curtain since before World...
...Larkins are seasonal strawberry pickers, and their way of life might be called Rabelaissezfaire. When Pop vents his heroic belches, he sounds like Charles Laughton playing Henry VIII. Pop is little seen in the strawberry fields, for he roams the countryside on a spivishly freewheeling enterprise called "the scrap iron lark," which nets him a 600% profit, a margin Pop regards as "perfick." Spacious, sportive Ma Larkin furnishes a groaning bed and board, fills her voluminous pink nylon nighties like two nudes by Rubens. Wed only in the sight of the common law. Ma and Pop have six children, only...
...strangely quiet: "The click of the locks as each man raised the hammer to feel with his fingers that the cap was on the nipple; the sharp jar as a musket touched a stone upon the wall when thrust in aiming over it; and the clicking of the iron axles as the guns were rolled up by hand a little further to the front, were quite all the sounds that could be heard...