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Word: archon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Khomeini is the archon of the oilfields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: One Man's Word Is Law | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...bounteous oilfields have now been Islamized. The 39 oil wells in the Khuzestan area, the modern refinery (the world's largest) at Abadan, the depots, pipelines and innumerable areas where drilling and exploration formerly went on, all belong to Khomeini loyalists. The mullah has become the archon of the oilfields. His picture is everywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: One Man's Word Is Law | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...Archaic Period Kissinger to the John Mitchell of Lycurgus, the famous lawgiver who recast the constitution of Sparta in a fierce authoritarian mold. Now Agathon is a drunken old bum. In between, he has fought a battle disguised as a woman, seduced and married the daughter of an archon, helped the Ionian philosophers invent humanism, rationalism and Western civilization, betrayed his best friend to the Athenian FBI, and made love to the wives of all his friends. By teaching his greatest love, a Helot woman, to read and write and think politically, he has set events in motion that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seer v. Slob | 11/9/1970 | See Source »

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