Word: ironized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...international scene, Joseph Stalin, has written: "Words must have no relation to actions-otherwise what kind of diplomacy is it? Words are one thing, actions another. Good words are a mask for concealment of bad deeds. Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron...
...Problems are so numerous," Weld explains "that we can't touch one-tenth of 'em. There's tremendous ability going unused in a college of 5700. We need that ability for the little extra push which will iron out the kinks in Harvard life...
...student guidance programs were unknown. Equally important, but less fundamental points concerned antiquated teaching methods, obsolete texts, the lack of adequate vocational training, hazardous, airless buildings, foul sanitary systems, poor medical facilities, and a short twenty-minute lunch period designed to develop a race of jack rabbits with east iron stomachs...
Difficulties of official interference are involved in soliciting a student body from behind the "iron curtain," said Campbell. Only reservation now placed on accepting Eastern Europeans, Campbell explained, is that they measure up to the high standard of scholarship set last summer...
...Labor Government's economic iron curtain clanged down this week. According to the London Daily Mail, Britain had become a "concentration camp." Right up until Tuesday, boat trains and planes for the Continent were booked to capacity. Clutching the precious ?35 that Britons were then permitted to spend abroad, the last "butterflies"* did their best to flit out from under the descending...