Word: ironizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most of the programs targeted for cancellation commissioned only a few officers each year. Among them is Westminster College in Fulton, Mo., where Winston Churchill delivered his historic Iron Curtain speech in 1946. Since the college had only seven cadets last year, the shutdown "didn't come as a complete surprise" to President Harvey Saunders. Still, says Saunders, "I'm sad to see the tradition...
...Maybe iron a few wrinkles out," was all he said. "Make sure the Italians have something to do in the evenings, and get them to their English classes in the afternoon after camp...
...begin with two days and nights isolated, standing up, handcuffed, with a sack over your head. You just hear crying, loud voices, an iron door slamming. You are very frightened. If you fall, they throw cold water on you to wake...
...tide of openness and reconciliation has torn away the Iron Curtain separating the East and the West and is now shaping a new world in which nations are cooperating with each other regardless of differences in ideology and political systems," he said...
Nostalgia is a great magnet for the iron horse, as is curiosity for a generation that grew up speeding down the interstates and making bicoastal parabolas at 30,000 ft. A train ride is a visceral excursion into history. You can hear, if you listen carefully, the hiss of escaping steam, the chime of crystal goblets and the rustle of starched table linens. You can see, if you open your mind's eye, a lone Navajo saluting the Super Chief as it pulls into Albuquerque; buffalo racing alongside the Empire Builder in Montana. On board there are movie stars...