Word: ironized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tackle the question of peace for the drawn & quartered Reich. By last week it was probable that agreement on Germany-the cardinal issue on which the whole European peace depended-would be reached before the winter's snow melted away. Russia seemed finally ready to draw back the Iron Curtain from her occupation zone and to accept Secretary Byrnes's longstanding invitation for joint administration of Germany...
...Russians wanted "delivered as quickly as possible" $2,000,000,000 worth of goods annually. Obviously, this would be impossible unless Ruhr iron and steel production became available for making reparations goods. The U.S. thought Russia's demands too high, was likely to counter with a much lower offer. But most observers believed that the U.S. would eventually pay a reasonable price for Russian agreement...
...radio pundits, but he merely grinned: "These commentators, they certainly are bad fellows. You know, one of them said Ed Stettinius was the handsomest man at the Security Council table-where I sit too. You can imagine the effect that kind of talk had on my family." Lie has iron nerves, can go to bed at the end of a troubled day with a child's placidity and (reports a friend) the pragmatic exclamation: "I have done all I can-now I might as well sleep...
HENRY GOETHALS, who seldom handles the ball, except in the T formation, is an iron man who played 60-minute roles against Rutgers and Holy Cross. As a backer-up, he has been an efficient hole-plugger all season...
...supposedly, knows the membership of these organizations save the members themselves, and no person of the outside world has even seen a member in the act of entering the building. The Book and Snake sanctum, as an example, is a plain white stone cubical structure surrounded by a massive iron fence and having no visible means of entrance. Meetings it is rumored, are held at midnight, but that's only hearsay...