Word: ironizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week, citing security, the University decided to place iron grates over the vents outside Leverett. The University. Capital "U." Followed...
...short of war has not stopped various Administrations from trying at least to chip away at Soviet domination of the East bloc. Secretary of State George Shultz last week became the latest U.S. statesman to try, touring a trio of East European capitals in the hope of lifting the Iron Curtain an inch...
Freshman Bob Morrison's performance was exemplary as well. Elected by the team's upperclassmen as this year's Iron Man, he won the dubious honor of swimming every event--and completing three 500-yard swims during each of the two diving events--for a total of 5800 yards, or three-and-a-half miles...
DIED. John H. Michaelis, 73, retired four-star Army general, whose courage in combat earned him the nickname Iron Mike; of a heart attack; in Clayton, Ga. During the Korean conflict, as commander of the 27th Infantry (Wolfhound) Regiment, Michaelis prepared his men for battle with the famous rallying cry "You're not here to die for your country. You're here to make those so- and-sos die for theirs...
...what the underground megamachine might accomplish is more boggling still: it would serve as a circular iron-and-steel racetrack for beams of subatomic particles, traveling at fantastic speeds, that would be smashed together in an effort to mimic conditions at the earliest moments of the universe. It would enable physicists to probe fundamental mysteries about the origin of matter and energy and could help them achieve a long-sought goal: to weave the four known forces of nature--electromagnetism, gravity, the weak force (responsible for radioactive decay) and the strong force (which holds atomic nuclei together)--into a single...