Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crowned a cannibal as the king of kings for our country. Ask the head hidden under the crown. That divine head is nothing but a cannibal's head. The cannibal with a machine gun, the cannibal with a whip, the cannibal with an iron mesh heating your bottom and spine until you vomit your brains out--yes, this cannibal is here...
...moral of the McDonald's success story is not that every little poor boy can become chairman of the board with enough sweat and strain. The many skeletons in the McDonald's refrigerators disprove this. It was not the invisible hand of the free market but the iron-gloved fist of corporate greed which flipped the burgers that made McDonald...
...ambition as exceeding even the generous quota to be expected of any presidential candidate. In Carter's case, there is an almost total humorlessness and an implacable quality to the pursuit of all his goals. Says a Georgia government official who knows him well: "He's got rock-hard, iron-hard confidence. He's like twisted steel cable inside." Trying to reassure an audience in Green Bay, Wis., that he was not dangerously ambitious, Carter pointed out that he had not always wanted to be President. Said he, in all seriousness: "When I was at Annapolis, the only thing...
...inner qualities that give rise to his driving ambition, iron will and unmovable adherence to moral principles are also the source of what he admits...
...build a highrise. Craig's job is to purchase a rundown hangout for body building called the Olympic Spa. The boys should have known better. Craig gets sucked into the strange rituals of the place, the exercises, the competition and-most of all -the mystical subculture of pumping iron. He makes friends with Joe Santo (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, himself a former Mr. World and Mr. Universe), and starts an intimate exercise program with Mary Tate Farnsworth (Sally Field), an employee of the spa. The real estate deal gets less real, but Craig hardly gives it a thought...