Word: ironized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these bases were far from finished when Japan surrendered. Except in Hawaii, there had been little permanent construction, in iron and concrete, during the war. Kwajalein and Saipan, Iwo and Okinawa had been filled first with tents, then with temporary buildings such as Quonset huts. The life expectancy of these structures, under tropic rains and salt spray, is scarcely more than two years. If the bases were to be any good a few years hence, the corrugated iron must be replaced with reinforced concrete. At Wake, Marcus and Truk, where U.S. forces did not land until after the surrender...
...stand, Germany's famed financier was iron-cold, well-dressed and superior. He seemed rather glad to be out of the dock where one had to sit with such dreadful people. He said that his fellow defendant Goring, for instance, was an ignorant and "immoral criminal type" who liked to play Nero at parties (complete with toga and rouged lips). At that, Göring rose furiously, had to be restrained by Admirals Raeder and Doenitz...
William Shakespeare looked like the Bard of the Volga on his 382nd birthday: his native Stratford blossomed with its customary annual festival, but the Soviet Union broke out all over. Hamlet was a smash in Armenia, King Lear drew iron tears down Tartar cheeks, Two Gentlemen of Verona titillated the Uzbekistanians; altogether, Shakespeare was played to polyglot Russia in 27 languages...
...General Motors Corp., after scouting feverishly, found enough coal to keep open its big foundry at Saginaw, Mich, for another five days. If the Saginaw plant shuts down, all Chevrolet production in the Flint-Detroit area (about 38,000 workers) would stop within a week for lack of castings. Iron-foundrymen, supplying parts for autos, farm implements, housing and a long list of other scarce products, saw widespread closings only a few days off. And when they closed, hundreds of those they supplied would have to close...
Last December, at Government request, the British Iron and Steel Federation, had prepared a special report on re-equipment and reorganization of their industry. They had agreed to accept a considerable measure of Government control. Some Ministers, led by cautious House Leader Herbert Morrison, favored this compromise. But socialist planners, like capitalist governments, are susceptible to pressure groups. Nationalization of steel would appeal to the powerful Amalgamated Engineering Union, a key organization in the Labor Party's fight against the infiltration of British Communists; so Labor walked halfheartedly into a highly exposed position...