Word: ironing
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Perhaps the most dramatic endorsement of the convergence theory has come from behind the Iron Curtain. In a 10,000-word essay that was widely but illicitly circulated in Russia before being smuggled out to the West in 1968, the distinguished Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov held that the only hope for world peace was a rapprochement between the socialist and capitalist systems. Suggesting that Sakharov's clandestine ideas still have a certain appeal for Russian intellectuals, another Soviet physicist, Pyotr Kapitsa, gave an oblique endorsement to convergence while on a tour last fall of U.S. universities. "There should...
...Their tactic, however, is to mirror the most rabid leftists in dogmatism, pragmatism, and self-righteousness; since they feed off these leftists as a negative mirror image, vanity may yet catalyze an explosion. The consequences could be bloody; WSL's McGinty, for example, is a member of the Iron Cross motorcycle group, and at the rally described above Mike Brown, a leader of the group, served as his bodyguard-reportedly threatening several bystanders in the process. The capacity for violence around these groups is as yet unmeasured and untested...
...articulate and anguished opponents of the war will have slowly accomplished, just as we for our part have developed admiration for the Vietnamese as resolute and resourceful soldiers and have become sympathetic with them all as an unusually attractive people even as we recoil both from the iron ideology of Hanoi and from the corruption and vice of Saigon...
...Porterfield. "To me, Debussy is more feline-the claws can suddenly come out and scratch you with a kind of cruelty. His is sensitive music, but it is very often on the verge of erupting. To conduct it, a sense of atmosphere is not enough. You must have the iron hand within the velvet glove...
...theory was so unorthodox and tenuous that Hess cautiously called it "geopoetry." It was soon to become geo-fact. After studying Hess's work, a 24-year-old Cambridge University graduate student, Frederick J. Vine, proposed an ingenious test. The iron in the lava from the mid-ocean ridges, he suggested, should be imprinted with the direction of the earth's magnetic field prevailing at the time that the lava cooled off. But patterns in land rocks had already shown that the magnetic field has inexplicably reversed itself as many as 171 times in the past 76 million...