Iron Curtainin a sentence
- This was the theory of "contact as symbol" proposed by sociologist Bill Mathers of RAND Corporation in his book, The 100,000-Light-Year Iron Curtain: SETI Sociology.† (source)
- But the department started sending me to places like Poland and Czechoslovakia, the old Iron Curtain countries.† (source)
- He had never really thought about what makes a defector, figuring that there were enough things happening on the other side of the Iron Curtain to make any rational person want to take whatever chance he got to run west.† (source)
- Four of us have seen it in our group and half a dozen promoters and theater brass and that's about it on this side of the Iron Curtain.† (source)
- I was of course aware that the people of the Soviet Union were still living behind the Iron Curtain, but nevertheless, once there I was surprised at just how much the Russian people were starved of freedom.† (source)
- We struggled to change the way the world looks at Mexican Americans by reflecting our reality in literature, and many eagerly sought our works, but the iron curtain of censorship was still there.† (source)
- "In 1952 the Republicans ran on a program of rolling back the Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe," Kennedy warned the nation.† (source)
- I helped land the victorious Army of the Pacific during World War II, I was a roving ambassador for President Eisenhower, have met the crowned heads of Europe and half the leaders of the Iron Curtain countries, so you will excuse me if I'm not suitably impressed by your idle, cowardly threats.† (source)
- He had his choice of a dozen Ivy Leaguers, but he wanted her, he said, for her "Iron Curtain look," the angular temples and jaw, the heady alto speaking voice.† (source)
- This is unfair, since I know—all of us know by now—that he was shunted around in four different countries, because of the upheavals of the war, and got trapped behind the Iron Curtain and lived on garbage and almost starved, and escaped during the Hungarian Revolution, probably with danger to his life.† (source)
- For a while they gave me a desk job, processing reports, making assessments of military strengths in Iron Curtain countries, tracing units and that kind of thing.† (source)
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- The Iron Curtain was manifested in different ways in different areas. In many areas there was a wide no-man's zone between countries. Now that the Iron Curtain has "fallen", some hope to turn these areas into green belt nature preserves.
- Today the Iron Curtain is 90 miles off the coast of the United States.† (source)
- Iron Curtain countries excluding the Soviet Union and China.† (source)
- An agent from behind the Iron Curtain?† (source)
- In front of the iron curtain which lies across Europe are other causes for anxiety.† (source)
- In front of the iron curtain which lies across Europe are other causes for anxiety.† (source)
- From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.† (source)
- From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.† (source)
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