Word: ironically
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...busiest cottage industry," and every new tin roof is taken as evidence that its owner has supplemented his income by engaging in the liquor trade. India's gangsters, called goondas, glory in such names as The Black Panther, rub out their rivals not with tommy guns but with iron rods, bicycle chains, broken bottles and knives. With bootleg profits running as high as 800%, goondas can afford impressive bribes to cops who earn only $16 a month. Seven Bombay policemen were recently charged with forcing a retired bootlegger back into business so they would not lose his payoffs...
...granted privileges. Then last summer a so-called Catholic organization called "For the Cross and Fatherland" suddenly materialized. Small in numbers, it looked nevertheless like Castro's bid to set up in Cuba the sort of National Catholic Church that Communists have tried to ar range behind the Iron Curtain...
...resorts for several days of intensive soul searching, often splits them up into groups for what he calls war games. (The customary enemy: A.M.F.) If a plant lags in production, Bensinger likes to take a hand at running it to see if he can iron out the trouble...
...time passed, the park became a mishmash of changing tastes: there were Roman gods, a Joan of Arc, a majestically cloaked Saint-Gaudens Pilgrim, a copy of Rodin's naked Thinker. Then in 1913 the wealthy Mrs. Ellen Phillips Samuel, daughter of a Philadelphia iron tycoon, left in her will a trust fund to be used to buy "statuary emblematical of the history of America." Emblem No 1 was a sturdy Icelandic Viking named Thorfinn Karlsefni; after him came a procession of American types-a Ploughman, an Immigrant, a Slave, a Miner. Finally in 1950 the city decided...
When Wyndham Lewis' girl friend left him to become Hulme's fiancée, Lewis tracked his rival down and grabbed Hulme by the throat. Hulme picked Lewis up bodily, marched out to Soho Square and hung Lewis upside down on an iron railing by his trouser cuffs. In a graphic, impromptu way, the episode symbolized what one neo-orthodox nonconformist had done to his generation...