Word: ironization
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...Manhattan first celebrated the new year's arrival in Times Square in 1907 - with a 78,000-pound iron and wood ball - and except for two years during World War II, has done so every year since, though the ornament has lost a lot of weight, svelting down to a 150-lb. aluminum ball in 1955. In the old days the thing dropped through the efforts of six burly workmen and a guy with a stopwatch. Now it's all done by computer...
Victorian attitudes to children were famously forbidding. That might partly explain why London's Museum of Childhood is little heard of by most visitors to the capital. Then there's the building itself-a red-brick and iron shed, an unloved remnant of the Victoria and Albert Museum in Kensington that in 1872 was rebuilt in Bethnal Green as a cultural outpost for the museum's overspill, particularly its collection of dolls and children's costumes...
...Chef —not quite Iron, but stilly pretty hardcore...
...three-point range blocked by Lillis, but a travelling call on the Great Danes’ guard gave the ball back to Harvard. Goffredo got more separation on his next look, several feet behind the line at the top of the key, but his shot hit off the front iron. The Crimson’s final chance came on junior guard James Lambert’s desparation attempt from well behind the arc, but Lillis, who finished with four rejections on the night, rose up to knock down the shot once more as the buzzer expired...
...least in part a response to the communists’ continued efforts of insurrection against Pinochet’s government. The 1986 assassination attempt—killing five of Pinochet’s bodyguards—is an indication of the gravity of the communist threat. Sometimes the iron fist is a necessary prerequisite to peace, order, and even freedom—an unfortunate reality of human affairs. One has to look no further than the now very visible disaster in Iraq that followed the deposing of Saddam Hussein for an example of what can happen without...