Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prepared ambush along the slum town's dusty main street, the Basuto "Russians" were waiting with jungle knives, needle-sharp iron rods, battle-axes and a few guns. When the Zulus bore down, the Russians tried to corner each one singly. Then, in the horrified words of a local police officer, who witnessed the scene, they would "hack his knee or his Achilles tendon so that he would drop, then slowly, neatly, talking to him all the while and wishing him a pleasant journey to Hell, proceed to pare his head with a knife until he fell dead...
...unions." Then newsmen gathered for a press conference got the news most of Canada has been waiting for: Krupp and four other German steelmakers have joined forces with a group of Canadian and U.S. interests headed by Nova Scotia-born Cyrus Eaton. 73, to develop a giant deposit of iron ore in Quebec's Ungava Bay region...
...have blocked out a billion tons of low-grade (35%) ore in one concession, 750 million tons in another. They expected to look over the townsite at Hopes Advance Bay, where Eaton's ambitious blueprinters have planned a concentrating plant to convert the ore to pellets testing 65% iron...
...highly unlikely that Americans will pour into Iron Curtain nations where they have not been invited, there seems little rationale for the Secretary's fears. Assuming that those travelers who do waive their protection are responsible enough to avoid starting trouble, there can be no reason for punishing them on their return home...
Smith's rugged iron works are too brutal to sit comfortably close together in the whitewashed, antiseptic setting of museum walls; they look best against the rolling mountains and lakeshore on which his Lake George studio faces. His Man and Woman in Cathedral (opposite) was jigsawed out of steel plate with an acetylene torch. "The name came merely because of the male and female in a vertical structural relationship." says Smith. "I named it afterward. The structure seemed kind of gothic, so that's how come 'cathedral.' When I work I don't name things...