Word: ironizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yesterday, however, the Crimson was coming off a weekend road sweep of Army and Princeton--enough time and practice one would think, to iron out the passes and whip up the shots...
Other captains, those who are not scorers by nature, lead by working hard. In the off-season, they pump the most iron and run the most miles. They eat the right food. They floss their teeth twice...
...took the inconvenience good-naturedly. In North Fayette, 17 miles south of Pittsburgh, residents switched to paper plates, postponed the laundry and washed at the homes of friends whose water supply was unaffected. Funeral Director Tom Somma used his hearse to deliver bottled water to shut-ins. The local Iron City brewery brought out "party trucks" -- in effect, giant beer kegs on wheels -- filled with water...
...Grishin. (Chebrikov was then a candidate member of the Politburo; he has since moved up to full membership.) Andrei Gromyko, then Foreign Minister, carried the day with a nominating speech for Gorbachev during which he coined the now celebrated remark, "This man has a nice smile, but he has iron teeth." Gromyko's speech was surprising in two respects: it appears to have been improvised, and it contained none of the lengthy recitation of the hero's accomplishments traditional on such occasions. Gromyko appeared to be saying: this man has not really done all that much...
...next morning much of Gaza was covered with smoke from burning tire barricades. Thousands marched through the dirt streets carrying photocopied pictures of local youths who had died in the unrest. In the following days, troops attempting to disperse the demonstrators were greeted with showers of stones, iron bars and fire bombs. Soldiers were attacked by gangs of children, some as young as six, who disappeared into the labyrinthine alleyways of the refugee camps. Some troops answered the volleys of rocks with bullets in a show of force that was generally as ineffective as it was lethal. Shopkeepers joined...