Word: ironizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iron Horse, 200-Ib. Lou Gehrig, played in a record 2130 consecutive games. A 148-Ib, player in second on the major league consecutive games list, with a 1307-game streak. This dimunitive shortstop managed the feat, despite being traded in the middle of his streak. For ten points name...
With the help of two consultants, Rothenberg rewrote the entire medical- pediatric section of the book, bringing it up-to-date with new findings since the last revision in 1976. One such change: eggs are no longer recommended for infants under nine months of age because the iron in the yolk is poorly absorbed by babies and may interfere with the absorption of iron from other foods. The co-authors added and expanded sections on the role of fathers in childbirth, breast-feeding for working mothers, and child abuse and neglect. Spock, a ban-the-bomb advocate since 1962, included...
...Crimson will have to iron out its defensive inconsistencies before it can play up to its potential and beat Princeton...
...another stint at Fox, and coproduced such films as The Sting and Jaws.) While other studios, like Paramount and Columbia Pictures, were being swallowed by conglomerates, the purchase by Davis and his partner Marc Rich seemed to presage a return to Hollywood's good old bad days of iron rule...
...Justice, said the President in his Feb. 16 radio address, because these revolutionaries are "fighting for an end to tyranny." Necessity, said Secretary of State George Shultz in a subsequent address in San Francisco, because if these "freedom fighters" are defeated, their countries will be irrevocably lost behind an Iron Curtain of Soviet domination. And democratic tradition, said the President, because to support "our brothers" in revolution is to continue--"in Afghanistan, in Ethiopia, Cambodia, Angola . . . (and) Nicaragua"--200 years of American support for "Simon Bolivar . . . the Polish patriots, the French Resistance and others seeking freedom...