Word: 500th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year, most of which he distributed quietly to students and the needy. He regularly sent back to colleagues in Iran taped messages that were reproduced and distributed to mosques throughout the country. One particularly fiery sermon attacked the Shah's October 1971 grandiose celebration of the 2,500th anniversary of the Persian monarchy. (The estimated cost: $11 million.) Khomeini denounced the "imperial feast" and urged the clergy to rise up against this "counterpart of Attila the bloody...
From Persepolis, where in 1971 the Shah celebrated the 2,500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire TIME Correspondent William McWhirter reported that Iran already seemed to be functioning as a country without a king. Most people seem to be looking forward to a genuine social revolution, albeit with some misgivings. "We want freedom, freedom, freedom-what's reactionary about that?" protested one Iranian hospital worker. Added a welding-shop owner thoughtfully: "The Shah's leaving is only the first stage. It will not be easy. There will be lots of hardships...
...Bruins had a field day, the Bulldogs are back in the thick of things, and the Big Green notched the 500th victory in its illustrious football history. The wins by Brown, Yale, and Dartmouth added to the excitement at Soldiers Field over the weekend, and set the stage for the homestretch of what should be a frenzied Ivy League race...
Johnny "The Chief" Bueyk scored his 500th National Hockey League goal last night, as the Boston Bruins defeated the St. Louis Blues...
Especially because of your review of the first volume of Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, I feel obliged to point out that the Bicentennial of American independence will also be the 1,500th anniversary of the fall of the Roman Empire in the West in 476. A better coincidence you couldn't find...