Word: ironized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...curious and frightened people. Franciscan friars ran for the wreckage, robes held high, to give the last sacrament. Firemen pried at timbers, pulled at protruding arms and legs. Fifteen bodies were found. One of the victims, a twelve-year-old Negro boy, had been killed by a section of iron pipe as he rode his bicycle two blocks away...
Greece is a key to the eastern Mediterranean and to the Dardanelles (which Russia wants). It is the only Balkan country still outside the Iron Curtain, and its frontier with Slav lands to the north (Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania) is in fact a frontier between two worlds. The U.N. commission was in Athens last week because Greece charged that Russia's allies were trying to push that frontier south...
...anti-royalists, and instituted a liberal Cabinet. For a while George was so popular that his subjects took to wearing monocles, in his fashion. But the spell did not last long; when the anti-royalists became difficult, he permitted the late, pro-German John Metaxas to form an iron dictatorship which lasted till World War II. It was then that George had his moment of greatness. When the Greek people inspired the world by fighting against Italy with Thermopylaean courage, George found stirring words to lead them (before he had to flee the country): "All together, men, women, children...
...treaty for his beaten country, Italian plenipotentiary the Marchese Meli-Lupi di Soragna put on his best black tailcoat (now a little tight) and his striped pants (ever so slightly frayed at the cuffs). Outside, in the courtyard of the Italian Embassy, he patted his top hat, caressed his iron-grey mustache, and glanced at the clouded sky. To Paris Cop PauL Simon, on guard by the gate, Soragna remarked: "Some rain coming, I think," and after a pause, "I have a disagreeable task this morning." Cop Simon merely nodded cheerfully...
Soragna stepped into his black Packard, rode to the Quai d'Orsay and through the iron gates to the French Foreign Ministry. The diplomats of the victorious Allies were assembled there in the graceful old Salon de 1'Horloge, with its five big windows overlooking the murky Seine, where in 1856 the Crimean War had come to an end, where Clemenceau had ratified the Treaty of Versailles, and where the Kellogg-Briand pact to outlaw war had been signed...