Word: ironically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York Times last week. In fact, 1989 will be remembered not as the year that Eastern Europe changed but as the year that Eastern Europe as we have known it for four decades ended. The concept was always an artificial one: a handful of diverse nations suddenly iron- curtained off from their neighbors and force-fed an unwanted ideology. Soviet dominion over the region may someday be regarded as a parenthetical pause (1945-89) that left economic scars but had little permanent impact on the culture and history of Central Europe...
...IRON LADY. Being Ambassador to the Bahamas is not usually a training ground for the task of U.S. Customs Commissioner, yet Carol Boyd Hallett will succeed the high-profile William von Raab in that job. As Ambassador, Hallett persuaded Prime Minister Lynden Pindling to put Bahamian police on U.S. Customs "hot pursuit" overflights and later lifted the U.S. visas of Pindling cronies accused of drug corruption...
...like a piece of pavement. When he and his workers cleared off the dirt, they uncovered a small ceramic pipe resembling an air vent. The "pavement" turned out to be the arched roof of a small rectangular tomb. Inside: a dusty sarcophagus. "I pried the top off with an iron bar," says Muzahim. "There was more dust inside, but when I held up the light, it was reflected back into my eyes by the gold...
...Iron their socks...
Though cameras were always pulled out for calamities -- the Johnstown flood, the San Francisco earthquake -- the subtler processes of the century left their mark on the glass plates too. The growth of industry, the very geometry of the industrial landscape were news. The diagonals of an iron truss or the plunging lines of a new bridge told of the spreading dominion of industry and technology in a way that words never could. Photography came along just in time to record the great expansion of empire by the colonial powers as they stretched toward the Pacific. When the U.S. moved westward...