Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...turning point came early in the week, when Tomas Cardinal O'Fiaich, the Catholic Primate of All Ireland, sent a telegram to Thatcher pleading with her to intervene. The Iron Lady's refusal to do so, combined with her plea that the strikers "take the course of life rather than the course of death," apparently convinced them that they could not win. On Thursday evening they called off the protest. The next day, 33 other Republican prisoners, who had been fasting for up to 19 days in support of the original seven, gave...
Thus, in death as in life, Kosygin had been eclipsed by Brezhnev. Still, until he fell ill last year and was replaced as Premier by Nikolai Tikhonov two months ago, he had maintained an iron grip over the vast state bureaucracy that he commanded. World leaders had learned not to judge Kosygin by appearances. In spite of his characteristically hangdog expression, he had been capable of driving as hard a bargain as any Soviet leader since Joseph Stalin. Equally tough and tenacious in the Kremlin corridors of power, Kosygin was unsurpassed in his ability to sidestep the purges that...
...Lennons' Manhattan apartment building, the Dakota, crying and praying, singing and decorating the tall iron gates with wreaths and single flowers and memorial banners. CHRISTMAS IN HEAVEN, read one. Another recalled the magical invocation of a childhood memory that became one of his finest songs: Strawberry Fields Forever...
...settled in France in 1975. In their own thuggish way, though, the Czech authorities showed they were onto something when they bridled at Kundera's latest work. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is deeply and impressively subversive, in more ways than one. Kundera not only raps the iron knuckles of totalitarianism; he coolly unravels the velvet glove of liberalism...
Take last Saturday. The men's meet against Navy featured such complete domination by Harvard that coach Joe Bernal had people swimming their worst events so as not to completely humiliate the Midshipmen. The only excitement of the day came from watching freshman Ben "Iron Man" Downs swim every single event of the meet in a successful effort to break a record set by another Harvard swimmer two years...