Word: ironizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...needed that," Harvard Coach John Dooley said after the B.C. game. "We're a young team. We needed to regain our confidence. We've been hitting the iron and we're going to hit it again Thursday...
...twentieth century, in miniature. On one side, people with real problems have been duped by ruthless dictators with silver tongues. To maintain themselves in power after the initial takeover, the North Korean Communists have stirred up a hatred of the South and of the United States. This legitimatizes their iron hold on the country and their repressive build-up of force. But on the other side, American "containment" has given the North the perfect excuse for repression--genuine fear. If "containment" can be limited to exactly that and the North Korean people can be convinced of it, them perhaps progress...
...think it's [the more difficult schedule] good, if we're thinking of going in the post-season tournament direction," Dooley said. "We're going to have to face that kind of iron then...
Ruby had been associated with union activities since his Chicago adolescence, when he had been secretary of the Scrap Iron and Junk Handlers Union. He was interrogated but released when the union's founder was discovered murdered. The union ended up in the hands of Hoffa ally Paul Dorfman...
...defense raised by New Haven loyalists is that Harvard has railroaded through changes for prestige, ignoring the concerns of its charges. Sure, they say, Charles William Eliot, who ruled Harvard with an iron fist for 40 years past the turn of the century, succeeded in transcending a small school into the preeminent university in the world. But it was at the expense of the College. At Yale, they insist, the University has been built up around the college, and undergraduates receive primary attention...