Word: ironization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...arrive for their shift and immediately announce their intentions to beat us, daring prisoners to misbehave. Using a baton bat, they would strike suspected miscreants on the soles of their feet, behind their elbows and knees and then chain them—not sitting, not standing—against iron bars so that their battered limbs could not relax through the night. This is one form of violence...
...Israeli Labour party lost the general elections to the Likud for the first time in the history of the state of Israel. The disciples of David Ben-Gurion, the founding father of the Jewish State, lost to the descendants of Vladimir Jabotinsky, the Zionist revisionist who articulated the Iron Wall theory and sought to include Transjordan in the borders of the future Israeli state. Believing that only force and unilateral action could defeat Arab nationalists, Jabotinsky wrote that “No agreement was possible with the Palestinian Arabs; they would accept Zionism only when they find themselves up against...
...record industry for classical music collapsed. The technology started changing. Some of these changes coincided with my own personal questions and my search to be a productive member of my community,” he says. The corresponding release party at a 250-seat folk musical hall, The Iron Horse, was met with such enthusiasm, Haimovitz says, that he embarked on a “Bach Listening-Room Tour.” He has played to audiences in intimate and often unlikely settings ranging from coffeehouses to the famous New York punk club, CBGB’s. He recalls...
...place spot as well.Even though he didn’t win a race or finish in the top three in an event, freshman Patrick Detzner arguably received the greatest honor of the day. Every year the team selects one freshman to swim every event in one meet, called the iron man. The challenge is given to the freshman who best typifies what it means to be a Harvard swimmer, and this year Detzner received the honor.“It took us a long time to figure out who it was going to be,” Rathgeber said...
...easy. To deliver on its promise to improve security, Hamas will have to rein in the myriad paramilitary groups that Fatah and Arafat set up. Confrontations seem inevitable. "The problem is not in carrying arms but in misusing them," says the Hamas military commander. "We will use an iron fist against those who misuse their weapons." The situation is even more volatile because Fatah members blame Abbas for the party's poor election showing. Thousands of angry Fatah supporters demonstrated late last week to call for his resignation, and Fatah gunmen stormed the Palestinian parliament. Isolated and weak, the President...