Word: ironized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happened that these Russians failed to get general recognition all these years while Western impostors usurped their glory? Moscow had the answer for that, too. It was the fault of the czarist iron curtain, which repressed science and free thought...
...American licensed press told Berliners two years ago, urging them to vote against Communism. "The rumor has spread that the Americans and British will leave . . . How unfounded!" Berliners believed it and voted down Communism. Relying on the U.S., they are gambling with their lives, 100 miles inside the Iron Curtain. A U.S. retreat from Berlin's ruins would mean that the conscience of the West has been outflanked...
Arcaro showed all these qualities one day last February at Santa Anita, aboard an iron-grey stallion named Talon. He was last going into the far turn, with 17 horses ahead of him. He whipped and drove the horse through holes that looked impassable. Then, with a spectacular finish, he won the $50,000 San Antonio Handicap. The next day, watching a newsreel of the race, Arcaro shivered at the chances he had taken...
...Iron Curtain (20th Century-Fox) is the fact-fictional story of the Soviet-Canadian atomic spy ring, and of how it was cracked (TIME, March 11, 1946). It centers on the Soviet Embassy Code Clerk Igor Gouzenko (Dana Andrews with a short haircut) who did the cracking. An odd blend of naivete and expert craftsmanship, the picture is an above-average spine-chiller. It is also topnotch anti-Communist propaganda...
...spite of some minor implausibilities, The Iron Curtain is a scrupulous and restrained movie, as well as a persuasive and exciting one. Under William Wellman's taut direction, it catches something of the soul-freezing discipline and mutual mistrust which must be the normal climate for totalitarian operations; something, too, of the way ardent amateurs in "front" groups are exploited. And near the end, when Gouzenko is trying hopelessly to find a Canadian who will listen to his story while the pursuers close in, the suspense is really awful...