How To Use Iron curtain In A Sentence
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Jozef achieved the unachievable by crossing the most dangerous border in the world, the Iron Curtain.
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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
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Everyone knows the reason for the airlift was the Soviet Union and the Iron Curtain — particularly Berliners!
Obama: Oh, what’s another lie…
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The divergence was containable, until the fall of the Iron Curtain.
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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
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Short of the fall of the iron curtain, few world leaders have ever about-faced so fast.
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But they get hot under the collar about trips behind the old Iron Curtain.
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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)
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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
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The lifting of the Iron Curtain has revealed some other gifted composers with a growing international reputation.
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They're receiving information about the nerve - gas formula from behind the Iron Curtain.
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Short of the fall of the iron curtain, few world leaders have ever about-faced so fast.
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My wife is EX - east German, Before the fall of the wall, Eric Honecker, iron curtain type stuff.
If it smells like socialism.....
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It may be that John Paul changed course somewhat after he had surveyed the Catholic world from Peter's throne, and that the credit he got for bringing down the Iron Curtain emboldened him to act magisterially rather than collegially.
In Search of a Pope
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We biked along the Czech Republic's border with Austria and made our way to villages like Slavonice and Telc, known for buildings done in ornamental graffito; Cizov, for a slice of Iron Curtain; and Jindrichuv Hradec, home to the country's third largest castle.
Bohemian Rhapsody on Two Wheels
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France is going to cop another pounding as (from my reading) the Iron Curtain will bisect La Belle France.
Cheeseburger Gothic » The Union of European Socialist Republics.
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Today, that which was repressed behind the Iron Curtain is now expressed, and point that bottle elsewhere before you open it, because its contents are under pressure.
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This event catalyzed a year-long quest to develop an observer/participant art form reflecting the integration of time (particle) and space (wave) into the living breathing presence of a new archetype, the "wavicle" reflecting Tambellini's space/time experiments in art & physics at MIT, anticipating the hyperdimensional model based on the torsion effect of the rotation of the planets and their satellites arising from behind the Iron Curtain.
Lisa Paul Streitfeld: (R)evolution in Art & Physics: The All-Round Genius of Aldo Tambellini
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But their words helped pierce the concrete and concertina wire of the Iron Curtain.
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One is when you are told that the treatment was pioneered behind the Iron Curtain.
Times, Sunday Times
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Granted, I was now on the right side of the Iron Curtain, where the reasons for conducting propaganda were more noble, but the principles remained the same.
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Many of these countries are natural allies of reform and rapid growth, having emerged from behind the iron curtain a decade and a half ago.
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It championed democratic dissident movements behind the Iron Curtain as a challenge to Soviet power.
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At first he'd wondered if the clean-cut fly boys who risked their lives making low altitude parachute drops behind the iron curtain knew what their cargo was.
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Also, he's checking every seaport from Marseilles to Dunkirk for any kind of ship bound for an Iron Curtain destination.
COVER STORY
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The slight raising of the Iron Curtain brought cultural contacts with the West.
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People could watch West German TV and had seen the Polish Solidarity movement triumph in a historic poll in June, and reformist Communist leaders in Budapest tear down part of the Iron Curtain, allowing East Germans to escape to the west.
Lapham's Quarterly: 1989: A Slip of the Tongue on the Night the Berlin Wall Fell
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In many ways, Regina is the perfect performer for the occassion: Russian-born, she was part of the large emigration of Russian Jews to Israel and the United States when the Iron Curtain crumbled in the late 80s.
Regina Spektor! Free Concert on the National Mall, June 1 « The Blog at 16th and Q
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One is when you are told that the treatment was pioneered behind the Iron Curtain.
Times, Sunday Times
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Unfortunately, while the Iron Curtain is thankfully no more, a new division is emerging.
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But they get hot under the collar about trips behind the old Iron Curtain.
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But the urge to "rejoin" Europe was a powerful motivating factor in the collapse of the Iron Curtain, and it remains strong today -- particularly among young people.
Backlash In The East
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If Kerry had had his way, the Soviet Union and the nations behind the Iron Curtain would still be in place - groaning under inefficient, totalitarian Communist regimes.