Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Asked, along with other U.S. writers, to wire protests to the U.N., Novelist William Faulkner refused, adding: "Any time we stop hollering and instead organize a posse to penetrate the Iron Curtain to try to tear down a jail and save one innocent victim, I will make...
...nations which had been fighting among themselves for centuries -Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg-formed the European Coal and Steel Community, surrendered to its control 188 iron ore mines, 355 steel companies operating 455 iron and steel plants, 145 coal mining companies operating 459 active pits. Last week the Common Assembly met in Rome to review five years' experience of the first practical experiment in European community, and found it good...
...life, the idea of renunciation as a condition of insight-the great religions are already "fused ... at the top," they can continue to exist within the framework of an overall world view which will "necessarily be Christian in substance." But to achieve leadership, Christianity must first recapture the "spiritual iron" that the East has never lost...
Berman's graveyard was bathed in a running, watery green light, and the Commendatore (no longer cumbrously on horseback) glowed dimly through the iron grille of a crypt, like a sea creature in a grotto. Through the mellow moonlit streets moved the kind of cast only a great opera house could muster: Cesare Siepi, Eleanor Steber, Lisa Della Casa, Roberta Peters, Cesare Valletti, Giorgio Tozzi, Fernando Corena, Theodor Uppman, all in top form...
...edge of the Iron Curtain, Europe's biggest press potentate last week occupied a strategic new foothold. Only nine years after buying his first newspaper, Hamburg-based Publisher Axel C. (for Caesar) Springer prepared to intensify his assault on the Berlin market by moving high-speed presses and an expanded staff into new quarters in the city's bustling Ullstein newspaper plant, home of prewar Germany's largest press empire. Newcomer Springer, who has already swallowed up almost half of the Ullstein papers, was also preparing for the hoped-for day when free newspapers will surge eastward...