Word: intact
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forces led by the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, which were calling for an end to the monarchy. Yet even then Beheshti attempted to hedge his bets. During the revolution, he tried to ensure that the instruments of the Shah's power-the secret police and the army -would remain intact and would merely shift allegiance to the clerics. He also tried to arrange a meeting between the Shah's last Prime Minister, Shahpour Bahktiar, and Khomeini, but the Ayatullah flatly refused...
...life transformed by oil. There are cities where tents once stood, motorcycle tracks instead of the hoofprints of camels, Arab schoolboys in flared trousers, and Bedu complaining that they are not getting enough government handouts. Thesiger is angered and dispirited by this seduction. His own independence and asceticism appear intact, and the only wear and tear he admits to is in his knees. "Apparently I had worn them out," he says, noting that the cartilages were removed some years ago. There were a lot of rough and remarkable miles on that single pair of shocks...
...Gators finished a strong third last year and return virtually intact. They have qualifiers in every event and perhaps most importantly, needed to shave only half their team to defend their Southeast Conference title and to meet the NCAA's ever-improving time standards...
When the curtain closed on the women's Eastern Track Championships, and hundreds of the finest women athletes in the East packed up their spikes and loaded buses for home, only three meet records remained intact, and every ITT facility record had fallen...
...moron? Or what?" The point, for Sellers, is that Chance is one of the meek who are supposed to inherit the earth, and actually does just that by being his simple self. That is the trick Sellers has once again pulled off, keeping his own essential blankness intact behind his multitude of masks. This interpretation stands the intended meaning of Kosinski's fable on its ear. If Sellers' vision of the character becomes gospel for a new generation, a certain concern is justified. "They see themselves as innocent, nonverbal," Kosinski says of Chance's fan club. But "they are children...