Word: built
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...develop the bomb, the only real homes were the vacated faculty houses of the exclusive Los Alamos Ranch School for Boys. Their most prized features were bathtubs. The lowly had to rough it in barracks-like apartments on "Gold Street" or in the clanging metal "Denver steels" hastily built with shower stalls only. Bachelor Klaus Fuchs was the favorite baby sitter. The Fermis won everyone's heart by living down with the showers. That did not keep the bathtub from becoming a status symbol and houses from being assigned by prestige points. To this day, "Bathtub...
...reflective moments, the deposed monarch is bitterly angry. Immediately after he left Iran, he told President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, where he made his first stop, that "my advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people...
...people. He failed to realize how deeply they hated the corruption and police terror, how seriously the country's Westernization offended its Islamic traditions, how much the middle class on which he pinned high hopes yearned for political expression as well as material prosperity. But the wall was built not by his advisers but by the Shah himself...
...Foreign Minister is a tall (6 ft.), well-built bachelor of 43, who likes designer clothes and expensive European shoes. In idiosyncratic but fluent English, he gave Van Voorst a spirited and sometimes contradictory defense of Iran's widely criticized actions...
...true. The mob more or less kept their distance, individuals approached on eggshells. They sensed that those arms, arms like thighs, had been built by an essentially destructive impulse, that at the slightest provocation Arnold might elicit painful obeisance with those big blue boots. Finally someone summoned the nerve. (To be stomped by Arnold...