Word: ironizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...avoid the worst consequences, though only if the Administration pushes its own investigations hard enough and fast enough to convince its critics that it has at last provided a full and convincing explanation of its activities, and one that does not spare the highest officials. "I think one iron rule in situations like this is, whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately," said Henry Kissinger last week. "Anybody who eventually has to go should be fired now. Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now, or as quickly as possible, because otherwise . . . the bleeding will...
Inside, the elephant seemed perfect, down to the last coat of beige paint on the last iron rosette in its immense barrel vault, arching a hundred feet above the floor. The minute hand of its floriated and gilded clock, one of the largest in France, which since 1900 had declared the time to generations of anxious travelers, now moved in sedate jerks toward apotheosis. The Manets were in place. From the bay of Courbets, dense and dark, impacted with reality, one could look across the nave to their diametric opposite, Thomas Couture's pedantic warning to the Third Empire...
Emigrants from London, 83 percent of whom were male, were often drawn by the fortunes that could be made in the American iron industry and the rapidly growing construction business. Craftsmen of all kinds were in demand in the booming colonies, especially in Maryland, Pennsylvania and New York. Bailyn identifies the hardships of living in the great metropolis of London as an important motivation for emigration, terming the city with typical flair, "a tumultuous human agglomeration abounding in contrasts between wealth and poverty, elegance and brutality, beauty and squalor...
Economic self-reliance has gone hand in hand with militant nationalism. Beginning in the early '60s, Albania sprouted bunkers with narrow gun slits -- the result of a Hoxha-inspired defense campaign trumpeting the threat of imminent invasion by East and West. The regime has iron control over its population. In 1967 Hoxha launched a purge in which Muslim mullahs and Christian ministers were stripped of their duties and sent to farm and labor camps; some Catholic priests who resisted were killed. Result: the suppression of organized religion...
Hong Kong, which earlier this year banned imports of South Africa's gold Krugerrand coins, extended the sanctions to iron and steel. Imports of South African coal and diamonds, however, will still be allowed. Hong Kong also asked firms in the British crown colony to halt voluntarily new investments and loans to South Africa. Said Piers Jacobs, financial secretary of Hong Kong: "The measures would bring Hong Kong in line with those governments that are our principal trading partners...