Word: ironized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enormous mass of tropical air drifted up the Mississippi Valley-like a soldering iron being run slowly up a dowager's spine. While chickens fell dead and pavements shimmered like cookstoves, the hot air spread east and west. Soon it was hot from the Rockies to the Atlantic coast. And it stayed hot-hot as Zamboanga in mango-picking time...
...over New Jersey, police were looking for him: Henry M. Brooks, 61, described on the teletype as "6 ft. 1, heavyset, squarejawed, with iron-grey hair and heavy mustache." For 30 years, Brooks had been a respected citizen of Greenwich, Conn, and a well-known figure in Wall Street. He was a member of the Indian Harbor Yacht Club, a Harvard...
...drab drama was relieved by a few comic touches-such as the Soviet sector police's fatuous pretense of defending the building. As some of the crowd began to push prematurely against the iron gates, one cop stubbornly stuck to the timetable given him in advance. With a meticulous obedience that was very German and very Communist at the same time, he said: "No, you finish singing the Internationale and then...
...Roman Catholics of Vancouver Archdiocese know their Archbishop William Duke as an unyielding foe of Sunday picnics, parish hall dances, demon rum and Marxism. They call him "The Iron Duke...
...claimed that, including tonnage royalties, his offer would have netted the Government $1,275,000 compared with $1,248,000 from Kaiser. (WAA said Kaiser's rental would exceed $1,500,000.) White also wired 403 of his foundry customers that Republic was "going out of the pig iron business." By week's end, the frightened foundries were deluging WAA with protests...