Word: arris
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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...
...walnut-paneled private office, sits down behind his carved walnut desk covered with his own pattern of letters, engineering reports, and half a dozen straight-stemmed pipes. On the front of the desk is the Douglas coat of arms.* On it is inscribed his Scottish forebears' motto: Jamaiz arrière (never behind...