Word: hearded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...full of the moment and yet always somehow marked by destiny. He often seemed remote because he was already living in the future, which most of us had not yet understood . . . His failure to reach the presidency was in my view a tragedy for the country, yet I never heard him express even one word of disappointment...
...relatively little stir back in the People's Republic. The telecasts reached only a comparatively small portion of the population (700,000 TV sets for 1 billion people), yet they did have some impact, particularly in Peking. "Walking down the street," noted an American diplomat serving there, "I heard a number of people saying 'Jimmiiee Cahter,' which is their way of pronouncing the President's name...
...current situation, even seeing isn't believing, as all television viewers know who saw and heard the Ayatullah's "spokesman" address the cameras only to have everything he said repudiated by the old man the next day On the eve of Khomeini's return to Tehran, the New York Times admitted all in a frontpage headline: AYATULLAH, THE SYMBOL OF REVOLT, ELUDES DEFINITION...
Some members of the armed services did offer their services unasked when they heard of the projected coup. General Gilchenshah, head of the air force, did so on August 10. Roosevelt was cheered. Meanwhile CIA experts had examined the Iranian constitution and decided on the shape of the coup--Mossadeq was to be dismissed by Imperial decree and replaced by Zahedi while a force recruited for the CIA by General Schwarzkopf demonstrated in favor of the Shah's return...
...When I first heard about the Canterbury Society as an undergraduate," says Harvard Admission Director Bill Fitzsimmons, "I thought it was a final club...