Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...struggle for power still to come -for dictatorships have iron laws of their own, and committee rule is not one of them-the comrade who will always bear close watching is the glowering little man who even now can be seen edging away from the newsreel camera's center of focus. He has a record of survival...
Nine months ago Algeria's rebels set out to destroy this iron limb of French imperialism. Basing themselves in newly independent Morocco-at some points the Colomb-Béchar line runs within a mile and a half of Moroccan territory -the guerrillas slipped into Algeria by night, laying mines, blowing up bridges and ripping up track. By last week they had blown up all of the line's 116 permanent bridges, destroyed 40 freight cars and six electric engines...
...Iron Master...
Before the time of Otto von Bismarck, Germany was not much more than a geographical expression-a sprawling, warring collection of states, duchies and feudal enclaves where the Hessians. Thuringians and Bavarians fought among themselves but mostly against the Prussians. Under Bismarck the Prussians won, and the Iron Chancellor set up the German Reich that lasted until the defeat in World War I. Germany's first real experiment with democracy was the Weimar Republic of the 1920s. But despite the efforts of men of vision like Friedrich Ebert and Gustav Stresemann. German democracy was splintered from the start...
...eccentric, violently pro-Axis speeches from Italy during World War II) if he gets out. "At first," said Pound to Il Tempo, "I laughed when the government called Grandpa Ez crazy. But now St. Elizabeths to me is worse than prison. I'm like the Man in the Iron Mask. My mask imprisons my thoughts and smothers my voice." Pooh-poohing the treason charges: "I only met old Muss once, and our conversation pleased neither him nor me. I talked [over the radio] about Roosevelt's follies, but I never said anything against my conscience as an American...