Word: alas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Politics of Oil. But the niceties of palace protocol were surface symptoms. Beneath them stirred the tides of history. As a well-read Iranian, the Shah doubtless recalled the words of the Arabian Poet Abul Ala al Ma'arri: "History is a poem in which the words change, but the rhythm recurs." For Iran the rhythm of history was almost metronomic...
Tiny, frail, Iranian Ambassador Hussein Ala had successfully pleaded with State Secretary James F. Byrnes for immediate U.S. action to protect Iran's sovereignty...
Grounds. In Birmingham, Ala., Jacob Wooden, 65-year-old Negro, was charged with murdering a visitor who persisted in eating peanuts and throwing the shells on the floor...
...HOEPFNER Auburn, Ala...
...Birmingham, Ala., where the city's three daily newspapers have been closed for three weeks by a printers' strike, people began to worry in earnest. One by one the striking printers were taking jobs elsewhere; by week's end 45 of them had drawn traveler's cards from the union and left town...