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• iron curtain — The phrase had its origin in the 18c with reference to a safety device lowered in theatres between the stage and the auditorium. Its figurative use referring to any impenetrable barrier evolved in the early 19c and it acquired its classic meaning …   Modern English usage

• Iron Curtain — in reference to the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe, famously coined by Winston Churchill March 5, 1946, in speech at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, but it had been used earlier in this context (e.g. by U.S. bureaucrat Allen W. Dulles …   Etymology dictionary

• iron curtain — n. [prob. calque of Ger eiserner vorhang, as used by Joseph Goebbels: popularized by Sir Winston Churchill in a speech (1946)] 1. [often I C ] a barrier of secrecy and censorship regarded as isolating the Soviet Union and other countries in its… …   English World dictionary

• Iron Curtain — The Iron Curtain was the symbolic, ideological, and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II until the end of the Cold War, roughly 1945 to 1991. At both sides of the Iron Curtain, the states… …   Wikipedia

• iron curtain — 1. (sometimes caps.) a barrier to understanding and the exchange of information and ideas created by ideological, political, and military hostility of one country toward another, esp. such a barrier between the Soviet Union and its allies and… …   Universalium

• Iron Curtain — /aɪən ˈkɜtn / (say uyuhn kertn) noun 1. (formerly) the ideological, economic and military division formed between those European countries partly or wholly within the Soviet sphere of influence and those partly or wholly within the US sphere of… …  

• Curtain (disambiguation) — Curtain is a piece of cloth intended to block or obscure light Contents 1 Materials 2 People politics 3 Music media …   Wikipedia

• Iron Maiden: Flight 666 — est un documentaire sorti en 2009 concernant le groupe de heavy metal britannique Iron Maiden. Le film retrace la première partie de la tournée Somewhere back in time entre février et mars 2008. Un album live a également été édité sous le même… …   Wikipédia en Français

• Information Curtain — Hillary Clinton’s Churchillian description of Internet censorship. Hillary Clinton provoked the ire of China’s Foreign Ministry with a speech she made on Internet censorship, The Times’s Edward Wong reported: Mrs. Clinton’s sweeping speech with… …   Dictionary of unconsidered lexicographical trifles

• Operation Steel Curtain — Part of the Iraq War U.S. Marine Lcpl. Raphael Hernandez, and Iraqi Army soldiers watch over the surrounding streets f …   Wikipedia

• Operation Iron Hammer (Iraq 2003) — Operation Iron Hammer Part of The War on Terrorism, Operation Iraqi Freedom Members 1st Armored Division wait to begin a co …   Wikipedia