Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...affectionately call their country, ticked along as smoothly as a Swiss watch. Steady economic growth was matched by full employment. Swedes enjoyed Europe's highest per capita income. Most enviable of all was the nation's record of labor peace. Except for one drawn-out struggle by iron miners in remote Kiruna within the Arctic Circle, it had not suffered a major strike since 1945, when metalworkers staged a five-month walkout. All of this seemed even more remarkable in light of the fact that virtually everyone in Sweden-even clergymen-belongs to a labor union...
...farmer, the Gold Coast witch doctor and the Bengali peasant shared a common bond. All owed allegiance to the British sovereign; all were British subjects by virtue of that allegiance. As Edmund Burke put it, these were ties "which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron." In a moment of difficulty or danger, a man's British citizenship could easily be his most valuable possession. In 1849, when Don Pacifico, a Jewish merchant of Malta, was refused compensation by the Greek government for injuries he had suffered at the hands of some of its citizens...
Last week, one of the few remaining links of iron was broken. In a long-awaited action, the Conservative government published a new immigration bill that will drastically reduce the right of non-white Commonwealth citizens to enter Britain. The bill is certain to stir a storm of protest, but its passage is regarded as a foregone conclusion...
...sees a ball about 20 yards from the tee-off point. "Around the moon-plus 20 yards," cracks Shepard. But the ball in the photo was not the "miles-and-miles" shot anyway, he adds; that one, he re-estimates, went about 400 yards-"not bad for a six-iron...
...facilitate this work, the police department has purchased some 24 armored vehicles from the Ford Motor Co. of the U. S. The cars, which are double iron-clad and made to withstand bullets from M16 rifles, have a capacity of eight men and are equipped with M60 machine guns...