Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that he saw me out of vanity, in order to appear in my journalistic pantheon of world leaders, but that he had never bothered to read any of my other interviews. That is not what he said to me when he received me in his office. For one full hour he discussed my interviews with Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi, Ali Bhutto and Yasser Arafat, and explained that leaders don't have to be intelligent, only strong and determined...
...embassy, a 27-acre compound surrounded by ten-and twelve-foot brick walls and secured with metal gates. The students, most of whom were unarmed, chanted anti-American slogans and carried banners: DEATH TO AMERICA IS A BEAUTIFUL THOUGHT and GIVE us THE SHAH. At the very hour at which the demonstration was taking place in Tehran, the Ayatullah Khomeini was telling a student in the holy city of Qum, some 80 miles to the south, that foreign "enemies" were plotting against the Iranian revolution. Repeatedly, he charged that the American embassy in his country's capital was "a nest...
...other words, our galaxy is speeding toward Virgo at about 200 million kilometers per hour. This previously undetected motion was not taken into account in earlier calculations of Hubble's Constant...
...half an hour later...
...problem is that the Eagles are still testing their new wings. At their early-October Boston Garden concerts, they included only four of the new songs in their two-hour sets: "In the City," "I Can't Tell You Why," "Heartache Tonight"--a cut with an irresistable, pulsating beat and torchy lyrics--and the title track. The disjointedness of these four songs, especially when interspersed in the bloc of old classics, underlined the group's growing pains...