Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have a lavish pay scale matching those of most corporations, constantly vie with private industry for talent. Universities have room for only one of every ten hopeful students who apply. The Shah's immediate circle of advisers is also surprisingly small. Among them are Premier Hoveida, 54, a dapper man who has held his job nine years; Hushang Ansary, 46, Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance; Amir Assadullah Alam, 55, who acts as the sovereign's right hand as minister of the court; and Jamshid Amuzegar, 51, who until recently served as the Shah's voice...
...most visible and vocal advocates of keeping oil prices high is Jamshid Amuzegar, Iran's shrewd and dapper Interior Minister. Amuzegar was chief negotiator for the producer countries in the 1971 settlement that first humbled Western oil companies by forcing costly price and tax boosts. Since then, he has become the Shah's right-hand oil expert. In an interview in Teheran last week with TIME Correspondents Karsten Pragerand William Stewart, Amuzegar talked forcefully on a range of topics...
...wiry frame tensed for combat, his glance imperiously stern, his mustache visibly bristling, his arms formidably laden with books, the lean, dapper man strode briskly to his Senate seat. "Mr. President," his utterly confident baritone voice rang out, and then for two hours, three, four, and once for a marathon 22 hours and 26 minutes, Wayne Morse lectured, harangued, infuriated and often educated his fellow Senators. Sometimes they fled the lesson, and Morse addressed an empty floor and gallery. But it scarcely fazed him. For he was sure that he was speaking for the ages and not just...
...Bermuda the seas were fairly calm, and passengers' morale was in most cases high as a kite. Surrounded by water, water everywhere, no one could complain that there was not a drop to drink. Ordering the bars open round the clock and all grog on the house, dapper Skipper Peter Jackson kept the bands going, the jollity flowing, for two drifting days. "It was all a little like Dunkirk," said one ship's officer. "You know, we English do have a talent for snatching triumph from the jaws of disaster...
...April 3 you will see the silent majority express itself" Albert L. "Dapper" O'Neil, Boston city councillor, said yesterday. "Construction workers, truck drivers, iron workers and mothers--we are going to be heard...