Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...highways are cluttered with custard stands sporting neon polar bears, while billboards, with their mass messages, evoke visceral responses from the more sensitive traveller. Inside the home, furniture varies from the overstuffed, confused style of Flatbush Renaissance to the cast-iron and cloth butterfly chair...
...while my hair was still dripping wet" and put in solitary confinement as a spy. Two years later she was moved to the women's dormitory at Fo Utca, where "39 women slept in 14 bunks, breathed air that came through a tiny window blocked by an iron plate. The stench was terrible. For 14 months not a drop of hot water to wash with. In winter the water was so cold that it froze solid. Once, we sacrificed six precious bowls of hot soup to wash our hair...
...Paul began stamping heavily on his cell floor. Thumped he: "I won't have my future wife discussing her underclothes in the presence of strangers." After that they discussed marriage, a honeymoon, children. Ignotus began writing poems to Florence, one of which, happily paced out, began: Despite the iron bars and wall I hold her hand in mine...
...Representing his fellow Ruhr industrialists, Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach was taken on a tour of Turkey's mines and factories and lavishly feted. He promised to spend 71 million marks ($17 million) on a new blast furnace that would more than double Turkey's pig-iron production. Excited Turkish newspapers headlined that Krupp "might" also finance a bridge across the Bosporus, "might" build a railway to Iran (he did say that he would be happy to furnish some of the equipment). German willingness to spend in Turkey partly results from Germany's $2 billion gold...
...Your Iron Curtain." They warmed him up with questions on Soviet agriculture. A Foreign Ministry interpreter at his side whispered the questions in Russian, and another off-screen kept a sentence behind him in English over his electronically muted replies. Khrushchev, who has never appeared on Russian TV, sat calmly at his desk with his hands folded, grew more animated when the talk shifted to the U.S.-Russian tension. He jabbed his finger didactically as he prophesied that "your grandchildren in America will live under Socialism." A metal tooth often glinted at the corner of a cunning smile...