Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowded parts of a crowded city like New York, youngsters are thrown daily into seething currents that begin beyond their ken and frequently sweep beyond their depth. Shouldered into canyons created by bleak, impenetrable tenements of brownstone and iron, shifting across noisy pavements before the exhaust-spewing lines of cars and trucks, they battle to save themselves from anonymity and the apathy of their elders. They form clubs or they run in gangs, and some learn to gamble with violence as quickly as they learn to step out of the path of cars. Roaming the parks and roads, scavenging...
Batista's answer was to slap Cuba under martial law, suspend all civil guarantees, impose an iron censorship. He ordered his troops to force open Santiago's stores and drive its buses. And his police made mass nationwide arrests...
Thus runs the evangelical message of Jacques André Istel, 28, a black-browed ex-Wall Streeter and dedicated prophet of parachuting in the U.S. His gospel: jumping, without emergency, out of an airplane can be a safe, exhilarating sport, not a devil-daring performance for iron-nerved musclemen. Europe has been convinced since World War II, and there thousands of men and women of all ages happily spend their weekends halfway between plane and earth. It is time for the sport to flourish in the U.S., says Istel. "There's no more to parachute jumping, done right, than...
Oliver Cromwell, Puritan man of iron, had his way, and on Jan. 30, 1649, Charles I of England was beheaded in London's Whitehall Palace. British Author Hugh Ross Williamson has joined the round-by-round school of writers who have lately described what happened on the night the Titanic went down, the day Christ died, and other fateful brief moments in world history. Like the others, he has brought nothing new to his main story, but his detailed preoccupation with dramatic incident has concocted in The Day They Killed the King a captivating capsule of history, one easy...
...discovery that fully 31% of the viewers promptly left the room when the announcer began speaking of the product. Surprisingly, women proved more fidgety than men and far more likely (24% to 18%) to leave the room or switch to other channels even when the blurb (for an electric iron) was tailored to their tastes. Even worse, another 23% earned the right to a new designation: CEBU. A CEBU (short for "Continuously Exposed But Unverified") is a TViewer who looked at the blurb and listened to the message, but 30 minutes later could not remember a single detail of what...