Word: ironization
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...several are quite interesting. Under Frank McLaughlin's iron-man regime last year, every starter averaged at least 34.9 minutes per game, and the most used sub--Kyle Dodson--averaged less than nine minutes of action per contest...
...Marcos who came to power by democratic election in 1965 was a nationalistic social reformer. In his first inaugural address, he claimed that "our government is gripped in the iron hand of venality, its treasury is barren . . . its armed forces demoralized and its councils sterile." Marcos strongly identified himself with economic and social development, land reform and centralized government. Nonetheless, he soon began to fall back into the tradition of Tammany Hall-style politics that, as one American official wryly notes, is "part of the U.S. legacy in the Philippines." He also ran afoul of a simmering separatist insurgency among...
...wake of national attention and widespread criticism, the University removed the $850 iron grates that had been installed five days earlier to prevent homeless people from sleeping on the heating vents behind Leverett House...
Last week, citing security, the University decided to place iron grates over the vents outside Leverett. The University. Capital "U." Followed...
...things in life are more sickening than the sight of a bum who has just vomited on himself. But the iron grates provided a potent exception. They had a certain diffident brutality to them. Like the Berlin Wall. Or a jail cell. Or a strait jacket. Or a cage. They had that fragile, arrogant look of an injustice that won't be tolerated. And owing to the press, and the pressure, and an organized populace, the grates were not tolerated. They were removed...