Word: ironization
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Despite his age, Value Line's founding father remains highly active in the company, putting in twelve-hour days at his Westport, Conn., home or the firm's Manhattan office. "He runs the place with an iron hand," says a former employee. Nonetheless, he has attracted notable talent. Otto Eckstein, the head of Data Resources, an econometric forecasting firm, was a summer intern at Value Line. John Shad, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, also was an employee...
...take over Greece became an increasingly bloody failure in 1948, the desperate leftist guerrillas, driven back to a few mountain coverts, adopted a cruel strategy: a pedomasoma, a "gathering up of children." The young were taken from occupied villages and sent as hostages to Albania and other nearby Iron Curtain countries. Publicly the guerrillas said the children were being protected from the hazards of war. In fact, the plan was meant to terrorize their parents into subservience to the guerrillas and to indoctrinate the children as a new generation of revolutionaries...
...first hole, Ballesteros struck a 7-iron within 8 ft. and made the putt for a birdie; at the second, a 4-wood within 15 ft., an eagle; at the fourth, a 2-iron that scarcely missed being a hole in one. Starting one shot behind Stadler and Floyd, he now led the tournament by three. Watson's game plan to recoup two strokes against the leaders had been to shoot 34 on the front nine, which is exactly what he did, only to fall four behind Ballesteros...
...visualize the "large organizing idea as one of those iron chain mats pulled behind by a tractor to smooth over a plowed field. I see the professor climbing up on the tractor seat and away he goes pulling behind his large organizing idea over the bumps and furrows and history until he has smoothed it out to a nice, neat, organized surface, in other words, into a system...
...surprising thing is that González did not take up a full-time career in sculpture until he was past 50. He was trained as a decorative-metalworker. Iron is everywhere in Barcelona, foaming along the balconies, standing out in rigid black swags and spikes from the corners of 19th century buildings, lacing itself into intricate grilles and diapers and chevaux-de-frise: it is the bronze of Spain. The González family had been forging it for at least three generations. Julio González worked in the family firm; he went to art school and learned...