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Word: hearded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...euphoric days that followed the exile of the Shah, the streets of Iran's cities echoed to the rallying cry of the Islamic revolution: "Allahu Akbar!" (God is great!). Last week those shouts were heard again, this time from behind the walls of Qasr prison, a grim fortress in downtown Tehran. "Allahu Akbar!" shouted witnesses at closed trials of military men and government officials who had served the Shah. "Allahu Akbar!" cried members of the firing squads that dispatched the condemned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Summary Justice | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...reported in the Iranian press, testimony at the trials has been sometimes startling, often moving. Khalatbari, a venerable intellectual who was charged with allowing SAVAK and CIA agents to use his foreign ministry as a cover, insisted that he was only following orders-a defense heard often at the trials. Khalatbari also raised a damning but unproven charge against the Shah, who, he said, "used to commit treason. He killed a few people with his own hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Summary Justice | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

Nkomo, who has changed his residence nightly as a security measure, later insisted that he had been at home as the attack began. "When the shooting started, I got out," Nkomo said. "I heard them yelling, 'Come out, you terrorists and your leader. We want to take him to Salisbury.' " That would undoubtedly have pleased Robert Mugabe, Nkomo's co-leader of the Patriotic Front, who was in Lusaka last week to attend a meeting of the Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Organization. Mugabe's 8,500 Mozambique-based guerrillas have borne the brunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN AFRICA: Sneak Attack | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...Martha have belonged to the Athenaeum, a private library in Boston-and, in patriotic spirit at least, to all Bostonians. So when the Athenaeum, strapped for money, recently announced the sale of the pair to Washington's National Portrait Gallery for $5 million, the outburst rivaled the shot heard round the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Crusade to Save Those Stuarts | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...from the varsity oarsmen, there was a lot of grumbling heard. "People in that boat are very self-critical," stroke Jeff Brown said yesterday. He added that most of the varsity rowers "have gotten through not being stars," so they do not expect things to come easy...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Lights Sweep in Biglin Over Dartmouth, MIT | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

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