Word: ironized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even thinking of a "Continental Plan," under which the U.S. would make big capital advances to groups of nations which were willing to abandon economic warfare and work together for the reconstruction of Europe. There was even a chance, Washington optimists thought, that some of the nations behind the Iron Curtain would find their loyalties strained if Western Europe as a whole began to produce as it could...
Chen and his brother saved the Kuomintang from Communist control; they got an iron grip on the machinery of the party. Opposition to Chiang Kaishek, or to Chen's CC clique, within Kuomintang China, became a dangerous matter. Chinese quipped: "Chiang chia t'ien hsia; Chen chia tang-The country belongs to the Chiangs; the party belongs to the Chens...
Said the Paris Combat: "The world stands at the edge of an abyss. Germany will be divided into two blocs, and there will be iron curtains on both sides...
...sometimes as late as 2 a.m., the Pope rises from his desk and goes back to the chapel to complete the reading of his Breviary and to say evening prayers. The long day is almost over. The papal bed is large but very plain, with a black iron head and brass knobs. Several of his predecessors used the bed and Pius XI died on it. There, for the next four hours or so, Eugenic Pacelli, Pope Pius XII, sleeps until the beginning...
...world got that frustrated feeling last week over a bit of news that plodded, with maddening deliberation, out of Russia. According to V. O. Fesenkov, chairman of the Meteorite Committee of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Science, a ""minor planet" landed on eastern Siberia last Feb. 12. The fragments of iron, nickel and cobalt were said to have smashed through the soil, penetrated the bedrock, and left several dozen craters-the biggest one 75 feet in diameter...