Word: ironized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must get an iron broom and sweep our party house clean of this garbage. The refusal to be worried about human beings ... is a malady which still ails a good many leaders of our party organizations. ... If you scratch these pseudo-moralists, you will find plenty of hypocrites and humbugs among them. You'll never cook your porridge with a lot of gravediggers like this...
Some 1,300,000, mostly civilians, had died of hunger, cold and shell fire in the city. When in 1942 a relief road was opened to Leningrad across frozen Lake Ladoga, Zhdanov, iron-willed, withheld from the people the food it carried, ordered it stocked in the reserve. In Soviet propaganda the story of Leningrad has been overshadowed by Stalingrad, because the latter marked the beginning of the Red Army offensive. But if the Kremlin should decide (in order to underline Russia's strength against an enemy it can't reach) to stress the U.S.S.R.'s purely...
...former Varsity tackle put these words in Cleo's mouth: "At times this year we were troubled by the fact that service men don't take to coaching. Any sort of hounding, no matter how good the intention, was resented by the players. It took us all year to iron things...
...brothers, yet God has framed you differently. Some of you have the power of command, and in the composition of these he has mingled gold . . . others he has made of silver to be auxiliaries; others again who are to be husbandmen and craftsmen he has composed of brass and iron. . . . If the son of a gold or silver parent has an admixture of brass and iron, then nature orders a transposition of ranks and the eye of the ruler must not be pitiful toward the child because he has to descend in the scale . . . just as there may be sons...
Twenty-three hundred years after Plato, educators still debated whether the golden sons of brass and iron parents have a good chance to be raised to honor. After a year and a half of research, an investigating committee last week decided that they did not. To a conference of educators at Columbia's Teachers College, the University of Chicago's Stephen M. Corey, head of the committee, reported: "The assumption seems to have been that 'genius will out.' The committee believes this faith unjustified...