Word: ironized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diplomat's words must have no relations to actions-otherwise what kind of diplomat is he?" Joseph Stalin once wrote. "Good words are a mask for the concealment of bad deeds. Sincere diplomats are no more possible than dry water or wooden iron...
They turn up on the Sahara, where all good Legionnaires belong, get lost in that old sandstorm you remember from several other pictures, and wind up in mysterious Atlantis, Maria Montez rules this land with an iron bosom. She kills people right and left and has their bodies encased in metal for an interesting trophy room. Although she ensnares Jean Pierre Aumont, he manages to escape, and then tries to return for no better reason than to follow the "Lost Horizon" plot...
When Joseph Stalin "replied" to a newspaperman's questionnaire late last month, he plunged the Western world into a whirlpool of violent controversy. Was Stalin's offer to meet President Truman behind the "iron curtain" made in good faith?--or was it only another sly twist in the Soviet propaganda campaign to split the Western defenses? The United States government has heavily inclined to the latter view and has consequently been excoriated or misunderstood by many people who sincerely believe that Stalin meant just exactly what he said...
Ordinary steel rings are put in the AEC's atomic pile at Oak Ridge and "cooked" for a month in neutrons. The process changes part of their normal iron into radioactive iron 59. Packed in 300-lb. lead cases, the "hot" rings are shipped to Richmond, Calif, and stored in a thick-walled closet (called "the cave") in the Research Corp.'s basement...
...takes it out of the cave on the end of a three-foot stick. Working carefully, with special tools, skilled mechanics fit the ring onto the piston of a test engine. After the engine has run for a few hours, its lubricating oil becomes radioactive because of "hot" iron rubbed off the ring...