| 单词 | iron curtain |
| 例句 | Among the phrases he minted were “blood, toil, tears, and sweat,” “their finest hour,” “the few,” “the end of the beginning,” “business as usual, ” “iron curtain, ” “summit meeting, ’’ and “peaceful coexistence. ” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z During Woodrow Wilson’s presidency, however, the iron curtain of segregation fell on federal employment. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The country is all closed up, just like this place called Berlin, where an iron curtain has come down that keeps people from going in or getting out. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z The leader now renowned as an unyielding critic of the "iron curtain" spent much of the second world war convinced of the essential good faith of Joseph Stalin. Mr Churchill's Profession: Statesman, Orator, Writer by Peter Clarke – review 2012-07-20T07:00:04Z Now that we are used to globalisation it's hard to imagine a time when the countries behind the iron curtain were largely obscured from the western gaze. Is the new Red Dawn a blast from the past? 2012-11-23T20:15:01Z An iron curtain descended across Europe, not a steel one; it was the iron horse that took to the iron road, the iron lung that faced down polio. Iron Man v Man of Steel: who will dominate? 2013-04-29T12:07:01Z It offered both pinnacle and nadir of human achievement, along with 60 million dead, Auschwitz, Hiroshima and the iron curtain. From The Naked City to Double Indemnity – why the 1940s is my favourite film decade 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z I was in the front row," says Mrs Fantlova, "so now there was no iron curtain between us. Terezín: the Nazi camp where music played amid the horror 2013-04-05T16:41:48Z In 1977, with the iron curtain still firmly in place, the work was first performed in Tallinn. ECM: In search of free jazz and free expression 2013-03-26T14:00:31Z British Prime Minister Winston Churchill said Soviet control was like an “iron curtain” pulled across Europe. Europe: 100 years of war and transformation With the Soviet Union forcing its system on East Germany and several neighboring countries, “an iron curtain” had descended across Europe, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill said. The Berlin Wall fell 25 years ago “The iron curtain wasn’t that strong,” he says. Life in the 'hairy underground': the lost history of Soviet hippies 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z By the early 70s, Tranströmer's refusal to be a member of any political party enabled him to travel behind the iron curtain, making semi-official cultural contacts which displayed a sure eye for literary excellence. Airmail: The Letters of Robert Bly and Tomas Tranströmer – review 2013-07-12T17:00:00Z In warning of an “iron curtain,” Churchill essentially resubmitted his plan for a Pax Anglo-Americana. Britain and the U.S.: A Forced and Unequal Marriage 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z Gingerich also relates the difficulties of being an American researcher during the cold war, knowing that his quarry lay behind the iron curtain. Stuart Clark's top 10 approachable astronomy books 2010-08-18T09:22:00Z The 24-hour news cycle pioneered by CNN has been credited with everything from helping bring down the iron curtain to changing the television menus in hotels all over the world. Larry King obituary 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z In Churchill's phrase, an iron curtain descended across Europe as Russia took over one country after another by force or fraud, and the process was, as Stone says, very ugly indeed. The Atlantic and its Enemies: A Personal History of the Cold War by Norman Stone 2010-05-15T23:07:00Z Even as Iran completes a digital iron curtain certain to further stymie research collaborations with the West, it’s encouraging its scientists to forge closer ties with China and Russia. Iran’s researchers increasingly isolated as government prepares to wall off internet 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z Less than a year after victory in World War II, Winston Churchill traveled to a small Missouri town and announced a turning point in history: an “iron curtain” had descended on Europe. How America’s push for the atomic bomb spawned enduring radioactive waste problems in St. Louis 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z As an iron curtain descends on a failing American imperial state, one thing we won't be able to say is that we weren't warned. Clinging bitterly to guns and religion: The end stage of American empire 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z It was as if the fall of the iron curtain, and of the ideological confrontation that went with it, had liberated our leaders from a big chunk of political responsibilities to their electorates. Our Shifting Understanding of Democracy Is Fueling Populism and Culture Wars 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Already by 1946, in the words of Winston Churchill, the “iron curtain” had truly fallen across Eastern Europe. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z In March 1946, in a speech in Fulton, Missouri, Churchill warned his audience that “an iron curtain” had cut Europe in two, trapping half the continent under Soviet domination. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z The mural, called "Morning is broken", shows a young boy opening curtains made of corrugated iron curtains alongside a cat. Banksy mural appears on derelict Herne Bay farmhouse 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z “They were not designed for a situation in which an iron curtain descends,” he said. Eurostar, Symbol of a Connected Europe, Is Plagued by Brexit Hurdles 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z It means that an iron curtain will be pulled down to mask abuses of power. Fake justice from the puppet-masters: The persecution of Julian Assange 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z Sweeping sanctions imposed by the West have brought down a new iron curtain on the Russian economy, freezing tens of billions of dollars of many of the tycoons’ assets along the way. Cracks emerge in Russian elite as tycoons start to bemoan invasion 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z “But it still shocked me just how quickly this new informational iron curtain has descended.” Effective propaganda machine props up Putin’s domestic base, Blinken says 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z “As soon as we saw this iron curtain descend again, we thought: What can we do to save ExoMars?” Europe fights to keep Mars rover alive after split with Russia 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z Some Russians — especially tech-savvy young people or those with social, educational or professional ties to the United States and Western Europe — are trying to break through the digital iron curtain using virtual private networks. Kremlin orders Russian media not to publish rare Zelensky interview 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z "If there is a new iron curtain, we do not want to be behind it," he said, referring to the Western term for a dividing line between eastern and western Europe during the Cold War. Kazakhstan does not want to be behind new iron curtain - deputy minister 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z Now the old drumbeat of the Cold War, the risk of confrontation between the big powers that was so familiar when Europe was divided by an iron curtain, is back for a new generation. Next stop Kyiv - the battle on the capital's outskirts 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z In response to sanctions and public pressure, major tech companies including Apple, Microsoft and Amazon have suspended some sales and services in the country, further contributing to what’s being called a “digital iron curtain.” Some Russians are breaking through Putin’s digital iron curtain — leading to fights with friends and family 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z It amounts to a new economic iron curtain separating Russia from the West. Ukraine war: Putin has redrawn the world - but not the way he wanted 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z He told me he and his fellow countrymen and women now had to accept that the "iron curtain" which divided Europe had simply moved. Ukraine: Nick Robinson on how Germany is reversing decades of closer ties with Russia 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z A change of heart by the patriarch, supported by a full-court press against Russia’s information iron curtain, could help undercut Mr. Putin's bogus rationale for war in Ukraine. Opinion | Putin’s bogus rationale neglects the larger part of history 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z A new iron curtain descends on Russia amid its invasion of Ukraine. U.S. plan for $14 billion in Ukraine aid comes as Russian invasion leads to humanitarian crisis 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z But the calculus for social media companies is quickly changing amid international condemnation of Russia’s invasion and Russia’s retaliation against Silicon Valley services, in what some are calling a new digital iron curtain. Silicon Valley companies have been rewriting their rules during the war in Ukraine. Russia is retaliating. 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z But already Russia’s actions—and subsequent global reactions—suggest a new iron curtain could destructively fall across a broad range of once promising collaborations. Russia’s War in Ukraine Threatens Joint Missions to Mars, Venus and the Moon 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z His regime has erected a digital iron curtain. Opinion | Zelensky is going viral, but Putin is winning the information war that counts 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z The response: A new iron curtain is descending across Russia’s Internet after online access was curtailed by Russian censors and Western businesses. Nuclear catastrophe ‘narrowly averted’ as Russia presses siege of Ukrainian cities 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Small bans and blocks like this have been accumulating over the past week, and are slowly forming something of a digital iron curtain between Russia and the West. Google pauses all ad sales in Russia ‘in light of the extraordinary circumstances’ 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z “Creating a digital iron curtain that shuts off the Russian people from a global information environment will make it harder to hold the Russian government accountable for its actions,” he said. Silicon Valley companies have been rewriting their rules during the war in Ukraine. Russia is retaliating. 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z Churchill’s phrase “iron curtain” came to represent Europe’s division into mostly democratic Western Europe and Communist Eastern Europe. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1946, Churchill declared that “an iron curtain” had descended across the continent. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z "This is the sound of a new iron curtain, which has come down, and is cutting Russia off from the civilised world." Zelensky: The comedian president who is rising to the moment 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z Ukraine's leader has said a "new iron curtain" is falling and closing Russia off from the "civilised world" after it invaded its neighbour. Ukraine conflict: Zelensky warns of new iron curtain as Russia invades 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z “Now it’s an iron curtain,” Treloar said, adding that the meeting was socially distanced: “One dead kangaroo apart.” ‘An iron curtain’: Australia’s covid rules are stranding people at state borders 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z Pastor Michael Fisher of Greater Zion Church Family in Compton, who led the initiative, said communication between law enforcement and the community often feels like “an iron curtain.” California bets that civilian oversight can help reform police. But will watchdogs have the power they need? 2020-12-06T05:00:00Z Iberian wolves now wander the ghost villages of Galicia, and Eurasian wolves haunt abandoned cold war-era military sites along the former iron curtain. Landscape of fear: why we need the wolf 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Paulson also offered an emphatic warning about keeping U.S.-China competition within bounds and avoiding what he called an “economic iron curtain” that would be self-destructive. Opinion | The global establishment’s advice for Joe Biden 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z The iron curtain refers to the division between Europe's communist east and capitalist west from the end of the Second World War to the end of the Cold War. Ukraine conflict: Zelensky warns of new iron curtain as Russia invades 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z International Brigades veterans went on to serve as iron curtain prime ministers – or equivalent – in East Germany, Hungary and Albania. The contested legacy of the anti-fascist International Brigades 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z A United Nations investigator has warned of the danger of “another iron curtain” falling across Europe during an ill-tempered debate in Geneva on alleged human rights violations in Belarus. Belarus could bring down 'another iron curtain' across Europe 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z Yet the economic context of the confrontation between the US and China is fundamentally different from the days of the iron curtain. US sabre-rattling towards China could rip apart the core of the global economy | Isabella Weber 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton compared Chinese censorship to an “information iron curtain.” The US declared war on TikTok because it can’t handle the truth 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z The next year, they used more oil drums to close off a narrow street in Paris, creating a kind of “iron curtain” in protest of the Berlin Wall. Christo, audacious artist who wrapped buildings, parks and landscapes in cloth, dies at 84 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z It seemed to him that the iron curtain was “the division between the conscious and the unconscious mind of Europe”. The big picture: on the road in post-Ceaucescu Romania 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z Following the second world war, the UK was among a number of allied nations to retain a military presence in Germany but it halved the amount of soldiers after the fall of the iron curtain. British army hands back last headquarters in Germany 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z "I've been warned by Westminster council," she confessed, adding that an "iron curtain" would fall over the production if she broke an 11pm curfew. Madonna resumes her world tour in London 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Shortly after, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave a speech at the Newseum in which she compared Chinese censorship to an “information iron curtain.” The US declared war on TikTok because it can’t handle the truth 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z There, Churchill delivered what became known as his famed “iron curtain” speech, which warned of the looming threat of Soviet aggression. Four unexpected places where the Berlin Wall still stands 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z Although scientists on both sides of the iron curtain had been working on this problem separately for years, cold war tensions had made it prohibitively difficult to collaborate. Cosmic cats and nuclear blasts: the strange history of interstellar messages 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z The company’s fund manager, who was seeking to raise about $300 million for iFlytek to invest in start-ups, said earlier this year that the U.S. was imposing “an iron curtain on technology from China.” China’s leading AI start-ups hit by U.S. blacklisting 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z And what is it like to grow up across the border in Canada, viewing Gilead as westerners once viewed iron curtain countries – as a totalitarian threat, but also as a mysterious hidden realm? How to write a Booker contender – by Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie and others 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z Seven themed rooms showcase a postwar infatuation with Britain’s royal family, sport, fashion, music and sense of humour – on both sides of the iron curtain. Beach towels and Brexit: how Germans really see the Brits 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z The emergent global superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, started to glower at each other across a Europe divided by an iron curtain. Brave new world: the search for peace after the second world war 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z Nonetheless, a Brexit “iron curtain” – in which a rupture in the trading relationship infects other aspects of cooperation – is invidious to both the UK and wider Europe’s interests. The EU banked on parliament rejecting no deal. Now that’s all changed | Anne McElvoy 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z More than anything, she said, the social cohesion that marked the communist era disappeared, as the iron curtain lifted and capitalism took hold. This German city had few foreigners. Then refugees changed it in some surprising ways. 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z No matter what happens in the realm of trade, a digital iron curtain – which separates the world into two distinct technological spheres of influence – will continue to be drawn. Easing Huawei restrictions may help trade, but won’t stop the China tech battle 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z McCarthy slammed the action as an “iron curtain,” but it was beginning of the end of his red-baiting hearings. ‘Not above the law’: Executive privilege’s contentious history from Washington to Trump 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z Attached to it is a Russian translation, since the order applied to all countries behind the iron curtain. The schoolgirls who defied the Stasi: 'Someone said, 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z But Tallinn’s entrance to this rarefied world came behind the iron curtain in the 1980s, when a classmate’s father with a government job gave a few bright kids access to mainframe computers. Can we stop robots outsmarting humanity? 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Second, through his choice of destinations, Pompeo amplified divisions between countries formerly behind the iron curtain and those that weren’t. Why Trump and his team want to wipe out the EU | Natalie Nougayrède 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z Last August, I made my way along the former iron curtain from Slovenia to Germany, passing through abandoned checkpoints. A picnic helped unite Europe in 1989. Time for another one | Eric Jozsef 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Wałęsa changed his country from being an iron curtain nation to a land of freedom – before the neoliberal system took over. Turkey and Poland: two nations paralysed by rightwing populism | Ece Temelkuran 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Winston Churchill’s famous “iron curtain” speech that foreshadowed the onset of the Cold War was just months away. Column: World Cup offers chance for respite from Russia heat 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z He was one of the first western Christian leaders to speak beyond the iron curtain, first in Hungary, then in Poland and Russia. Billy Graham obituary 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z "Kelly, of course, has brought down an iron curtain, and I think the president likes the fact that it's more orderly," said Roger Stone, a longtime political advisor to Trump. Trump's chief of staff, facing heat for backing alleged abuser, has shed his image as calming force 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z The strict Soviet aesthetic of his childhood was obliterated in 1989, with the fall of the iron curtain: suddenly, there was pop music, Coca-Cola, Vogue magazine, a collage of clashing visuals. ‘I don’t think elegance is relevant’: Vetements’ Demna Gvasalia, the world’s hottest designer 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z Let;s see...a beautiful woman from an underdeveloped country that was once "behind the iron curtain" meets and marries an overbearing rich bully of a man/child. Opinion | The Quiet Radicalism of Melania Trump 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z On May 12, Churchill sent Truman a telegram about his concerns over Soviet actions: “An iron curtain is drawn down upon their front.” Opinion | The Communist Party’s Party People 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z In the mid- to late 80s, vast political changes swept across the Soviet Union and its satellite countries in eastern Europe, behind what had been termed the iron curtain in the west. My brilliant and troubled friend Lou Reed 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z Allying with human rights groups behind the iron curtain, END married the disarmament agenda of western Europe with the democracy agenda of eastern Europe. No more nukes? Why anti-nuclear protests need an urgent revival 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z And despite Merkel’s own experience growing up behind the iron curtain, Trump’s plan to build a wall along the Mexican border would be treated as a “domestic issue”. Merkel's goal for Trump meeting: selling German cars, not saving global order 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z It was still the age of the iron curtain, still the time when saying goodbye could have meant never seeing one another again. Living on the border in Trump's America: 'walls don't stop people from crossing' 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z That spill also led to what was supposed to bring down the iron curtain that divides emergency responders on each side of the Ontario-Michigan border. A roundup of recent Michigan newspaper editorials 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Between his late wife and himself, he felt only “the locked door, the iron curtain, the vacuum, absolute zero.” When Things Go Missing 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z During the cold war, “the west” was one side of the iron curtain; “the east” its opposite and enemy. There is no such thing as western civilisation | Kwame Anthony Appiah 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z “It was like an iron curtain was drawn across communicating research to Canadians.” Nine years of censorship 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z “Will we embrace the stranger in need or build new iron curtains? Will we offer migrants a new home or send them into the arms of the mafias and death at sea?” Pope Francis to lay down a moral challenge for Europe in visit to refugee island 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z But there is no respectable Christian argument for fortress Europe, surrounded by a new iron curtain of razor wire to keep poor, dark-skinned people out. Christian politicians won’t say it, but the Bible is clear: let the refugees in, every last one | Giles Fraser: Loose canon 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z “You could see the iron curtain fall,” says Cox, who’s 76. A century after lynching, town still wrestles over history 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z European football, he says, is now divided by "a financial iron curtain". Europe's soccer body gloats at FIFA's fall but has its own critics 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z In the 1946 speech in which he famously coined the term “iron curtain,” Winston Churchill also advanced the idea that the United States and Britain must remain fast friends and allies. U.S., Britain’s ‘special relationship’ endures but with less vigor 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z While it may be easier to remember that Churchill invented the iron curtain, here’s the real history: Winston Churchill Did Not Coin the Phrase 'Iron Curtain' 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Despite the strong neo-Soviet spirit in Russia, the country’s current leadership does not keep its citizens behind an iron curtain. The Campaign Against “Leviathan” in Russia 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z In his annual state-of-the nation address to Russia's parliament on Thursday, President Vladimir Putin accused Western governments of seeking to raise a new "iron curtain" around Russia. New initiative on Ukraine ceasefire 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z With the Soviet Union forcing its system on East Germany and several neighboring countries, "an iron curtain" had descended across Europe, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill said. The Berlin Wall, which divided a city, fell 25 years ago 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z “It is an attempt to create a digital iron curtain around Hungary.” Hungarians March Against Proposed Tax on Internet Use 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z In its earliest use, circa 1794, an “iron curtain” was a literal iron screen that would lowered in a theater to protect the audience and auditorium from any fire occurring backstage. Winston Churchill Did Not Coin the Phrase 'Iron Curtain' 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z The YouTube clip was already being passed hand to virtual hand among Scandinavian intellectuals like a samizdat copy of Solzhenitsyn behind the iron curtain. Revolution by Russell Brand review – soft-soap therapy when we need a harder edge 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Forbes: Do you think that a new “iron curtain” is being raised between Russia and the West? Georgian President Margvelashvili Condemns Russian Aggression, Says Georgia Looks To The West 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Even absent the lapses of recent weeks, it would be madness to suggest a slackening in the iron curtain around the President. Keeping the White House Open 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z Chinese naval strategists warn of Indian designs to drop an “iron curtain” there. From outpost to springboard 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Whether he is right or not, one thing is clear: the era that began with the opening of the iron curtain is now over. Russia and economic warfare: RIP the free market new world order 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z So instead a corporate iron curtain is threatened to be raised. America Needs More Tax Inversion 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z And then our family moved to Baltimore and the iron curtain of the "colour line" fell. On race, America has far to go. Ferguson won't be the last flash point 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z But the most important short term consequence will be to crystallise a virtual iron curtain between Europe and Russia. Putin’s Blunders Over MH17 Have Left Him Badly Damaged He talks of “a financial iron curtain” dividing football, replacing the ideological divisions of the Cold War. Blatter’s challenger: broad views but a FIFA man 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z That would do much to remove the shadow of the iron curtain, as well as to send a clear message to Mr Putin. The eastern blockage 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z If the EU's project to reduce its dependence on Russian energy bears fruit, it is possible that the recent growth in trade across the old iron curtain will be reversed. Ukraine crisis: Is this Cold War Two? 2014-03-24T18:50:34Z "They are attempting to draw an iron curtain in front of the execution to prevent people from seeing what's really going on." Looming Missouri execution turns spotlight on lethal injection drugs 2014-02-24T13:06:00Z "What we wanted since the collapse of Communism and the fall of the iron curtain is a united Europe," says Mr Roucek. Welcome, Croatia 2013-06-28T09:40:46Z I grew up behind the iron curtain and my grandma could make a tasty dinner out of almost nothing. Letters: Christmas vote for turkeys 2012-12-17T21:00:04Z Stalin, in order to create a totalitarian state, brought down an iron curtain around the country. Rights Groups in Russia Reject Foreign Agent Label 2012-11-22T03:54:21Z In the 1980s she was a freelance interpreter, working with major media to cover the shipyard strikes that led to the fall of the iron curtain. Before Google … the alternative travel guide to Poland 2012-10-06T23:04:13Z An iron curtain is being drawn between science and society. Canadian scientists protest against spending cuts 2012-07-10T19:20:08Z The collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s also brought the iron curtain down on The Communist Party of Great Britain. What happened to the Communist Party of Great Britain's millions? 2012-06-13T00:40:22Z Between each breath, and these were coming in short, sharp gasps, I kept yelling out from the corner of my lips: 'Lower that iron curtain; drop the fire curtain!' Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z The high-flying U-2 spy plane was first designed during the Eisenhower administration to breach the iron curtain and, as engineers said, snap "picture postcards for Ike" of hidden military strongholds in the Soviet Union. U.S. may rely on aging U-2 spy planes longer than expected 2012-01-28T06:00:00Z The Kremlin walls, the very symbol of the iron curtain, were scarcely six inches high! The Image and the Likeness 2011-08-23T02:00:33.617Z In the very first months of the Civil War — after Baker, Mallory and Townsend breached their own wall, and Butler shrugged — slavery’s iron curtain began falling all across the South. Magazine Preview: How Slavery Really Ended in America 2011-04-01T17:48:58Z And if Gaddafi decides not to go, we wouldn't necessarily have an iron curtain, but we would have a sand curtain that would divide Libya somewhere east of Tripoli and west of Benghazi. Live: Libya crisis 2011-03-18T09:43:19Z An iron curtain, designed for just such emergencies, was forgotten, and the flames, which might thus have been confined to the stage, spread furiously through the entire building. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z The iron curtain descended slowly and sank into the ground. The Three Eyes 2010-12-20T17:11:46.430Z Technology, conventional wisdom runs, punches holes through iron curtains. Death to the Dictator! by Afsaneh Moqadam - Between Two Worlds by Roxana Saberi 2010-07-16T17:03:00Z On Saturday, addressing an international conference in Poland on democracy and human rights, Mrs. Clinton recalled Winston Churchill's warning 60 years ago that an iron curtain was descending across Europe. Clinton Tour Stops In Azerbaijan 2010-07-04T16:54:00Z His parents would talk soberly about the iron curtain. Obama's national security officials, on the night watch 2010-07-02T21:13:00Z Here again an iron curtain that would have protected the audience was not lowered. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z When the iron curtain fell, twelve policemen took the place of the usual attendants. The Three Eyes 2010-12-20T17:11:46.430Z Now it is divided by a new iron curtain, based on humiliating, expensive visa regulations. Journeying in eastern Europe: Planes, trains and extortionate taxis 2010-04-26T12:26:00Z Not an iron curtain, but an iron intolerance as politicians revert to blaming minorities for their nations' woes. Europe's New Politics of Fear 2010-04-16T22:01:00Z "Right now," said Hamston, "it's probably high noon for every scientist behind the iron curtain." Moon Glow Meantime the tenants of the shops in his house had lowered the iron curtains, which at least was an obstacle against the first throwing of petroleum. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 For the moment, all this space was masked by an iron curtain, roughly daubed with gaudy landscapes and ill-drawn views. The Three Eyes 2010-12-20T17:11:46.430Z It was the United Nations that cracked the iron curtain. Off Course The iron curtain rose ... there was a clash of orchestra ... The Bill-Toppers That these huge iron curtains may be lifted more easily, one hundred and thirty of them are fitted with rollers, and whatever the pressure of water, they rise and fall with great smoothness. Chatterbox, 1906 All but one of the countries, outside of the iron curtain, have now been settled or assigned to pioneers. The Light of Divine Guidance (Volume 1) You might be interested in a very peculiar tale our modern agents have picked up, floating over and under the iron curtain. The Time Traders A black iron curtain crashed down before her and cut off the dream. The Romantic There's no doubt about it; you can't stomach the trick of the iron curtain. The Teeth of the Tiger He had attended to a new curiosity on the part of another official of the County Council about the iron curtain. The Regent Then abruptly the iron curtain rose again, and he found himself near the very centre of the struggle. The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth We were now in a bare and roomy lobby behind the shop, but separated therefrom by an iron curtain, the very sight of which filled me with despair. The Amateur Cracksman Directly in front of them was the great iron curtain of the stage, painted with all manner of advertisements. McTeague He stood aside and pressed the button that worked the iron curtain. The Teeth of the Tiger Then she removed the iron curtain rod, and bent this in such a way that it formed a hook or grapple strong enough for her wants. The Living Link It became evident that Redwood had still imperfectly apprehended the fact that an iron curtain had dropped between him and the outer world. The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth The iron curtain was down, but he insisted on raising it until I could peep through the glass door on the other side and see his handiwork in the shop beyond. The Amateur Cracksman In this sense, the iron curtain has, indeed, lifted and total integration has been achieved despite massive economic disparities. The Belgian Curtain Europe after Communism "At my house, above the iron curtain, in the ceiling of my study." The Teeth of the Tiger It was they who had flung themselves on the general at the fall of the iron curtain and prevented him dashing round to attack the stalls with his sabre. The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England A Tale of the Great Invasion Meanwhile, from behind the iron curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard. State of the Union Address The weak point of these iron curtains is the leverage you can get from below. The Amateur Cracksman Nowhere is this ideological altercation more evident than in the countries formerly behind the iron curtain. The Belgian Curtain Europe after Communism To cut the telephone wire before your eyes and then blockade you behind that iron curtain! The Teeth of the Tiger Their world has many elements of strength, but this one fatal flaw: the weakness represented by their iron curtain and their police state. State of the Union Address This is the way it is, a chain of abuse, a torrent of prejudice, an iron curtain of malice and stereotyping. After the Rain : how the West lost the East With her hand on the wire ledge, Louise watched the slow fall of the iron curtain. Maurice Guest He was lying upon his bed, a little iron bedstead with white curtains round it and surmounted by an iron curtain ring of somewhat doubtful taste. The Memoirs of Victor Hugo And he also began to wonder what accident had released the mechanism which had hurled the formidable iron curtain upon him, craftily and ruthlessly. The Teeth of the Tiger He remembered the incident of the iron curtain. The Teeth of the Tiger Under the hanging, among the moldings of the cornice, was a button that had only to be pressed to bring down the iron curtain against which he had thrown himself two hours before. The Teeth of the Tiger I was leaving the telephone box, when the iron curtain, concealed in the upper part of the wall, fell in front of me. The Teeth of the Tiger The deputy chief was banging at the iron curtain with all his might and shouting so loud that they were bound to hear him outside through the open window. The Teeth of the Tiger |
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