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Word: forme (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...developing a modern political system, writes the Shah, his father "removed from the clergy part of the privileges they had previously enjoyed. Consequently, one section of the Shi'ite clergy responded by branding all temporal power as necessarily a form of usurpation." But the Shah insists that he dealt relatively mildly with his opponents: "I am told today that I should have applied martial law more forcefully. This would have cost my country less dear than the bloody anarchy now established there. But a sovereign cannot save his throne by spilling the blood of his fellow countrymen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Thrown Out Like a Dead Mouse | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Other harassment may take the form of embarrassing the student without making an advance. Allyson A. Gonzalez '83, says when she went to see a professor in his office, he insisted on using the bathroom while still talking to her, leaving the door open. Gonzalez and other students say from now on, if they need to visit his office, they will bring someone with them...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Sexual Harassment: New Policy But Old Problems | 12/13/1979 | See Source »

...blue-eyed sisters called each other Poto and Cabengo, and sometimes Madame and Milady. For a while they were thought to be retarded. But at the same time they seemed to be speaking an original language. At the very least their exchanges were thought to represent the most developed form of idioglossia ever recorded in medical history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ginny and Gracie Go to School | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Breaststroke sensation David Lundberg made a shambles of his supposed dual with Koji Nishinura, last year's Eastern champion in the 100 and 200 runner-up. Nishimura faded badly after leading midway while Lundberg cruised in at 2:07.7, only slightly off last week's Harvard record setting form...

Author: By John S. Bruce, | Title: Aquamen Conquer West Point | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...Mannix returned to his Texas game shooting form, hitting assorted bombs from the perimeter for a season-high 16 points. His finest moment, however, came with 3:25 left in the second overtime, when he drove the right baseline and sunk a left-handed five-footer to keep the Crimson within...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Cagers Tumble in Double OT | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

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