Word: ironized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...having earned a reputation for getting things done, he had risen to Permanent Undersecretary and a knighthood. He is an iron-willed negotiator. At an UNRRA conference in Montreal in 1944, he held a deadlocked meeting in session most of the night, finally convinced Russia's delegates that they had misinterpreted their instructions from Moscow. After the war, despite an offer to become Permanent Undersecretary of the Foreign Office, he returned to Oxford...
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...great markets of La Villette, on the northeastern outskirts of Paris, reeked as usual with the gore of freshly slaughtered livestock. Nearly a thousand butchers, ruddy-faced and cheerful, lounged about waiting for the clang of the heavy iron bell to call them into the slaughterhouses, to bid for the fresh carcasses of 800 oxen and cows, 1,000 calves, and 1,500 sheep...
...what are you doing with a two iron," the ski instructor said to the novice. "I'm playing for the roll," the novice said...
...room rent discrepancies. The cases of occupants of small, evamped rooms being charged higher rents than those living in more spacious and desirable suites are too numerous under the present sealing system for current prices to seem other than haphazard. Any increase in rent affords a perfect opportunity to iron out these iniquities...