iron curtain

How To Use iron curtain In A Sentence

• Jozef achieved the unachievable by crossing the most dangerous border in the world, the Iron Curtain.
• The first recorded use of the term iron curtain was derived from the safety curtain used in theatres and first applied to the border of communist Russia as "an impenetrable barrier" in 1920 by Ethel Snowden, in her book Through Bolshevik Russia Number Ten is Rotten to the Core
• Everyone knows the reason for the airlift was the Soviet Union and the Iron Curtain — particularly Berliners! Obama: Oh, what’s another lie…
• The divergence was containable, until the fall of the Iron Curtain.
• The point of the book is at least as much the style as the substance, and I thought I recognised homages to Zamyatin and Bulgakov, as well as to the intersection between the writing of pulp sf and the Cold War as experienced on the other side of the Iron Curtain. February Books 4) Kushiel's Scion, by Jacqueline Carey
• Short of the fall of the iron curtain, few world leaders have ever about-faced so fast.
• But they get hot under the collar about trips behind the old Iron Curtain.
• The term “iron curtain” was used in this sense as early as 1920, and Churchill had used it earlier in a telegram to President Harry Truman, May 12, 1945: “An iron curtain is drawn down upon their front. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965)
• Suc de mere What struck me (apart from the sheer mind-boggling fact that these languages, firmly behind the Iron Curtain twenty years ago, are now on display in Tesco's) was that the root for "apple" (and Dutch appel, German Apfel; plus, I am told, Irish abhal and úll and Welsh afal) clearly also lies behind Russian яблоко, Lithuanian obuolys, Latvian ābols and Bulgarian ябълка. Apple juice
• The lifting of the Iron Curtain has revealed some other gifted composers with a growing international reputation.