Word: lating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is evidence that the introspective Shah recently began to realize that the end was coming, though he remained immobilized and unable to accept the fact that his grand scheme had failed. When TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis asked him in late November what he felt had been his biggest mistake, the Shah answered sadly: "Being born." On another occasion, he wondered aloud how many of his people would go into the streets to cheer and support him as a million Frenchmen once did for Charles de Gaulle during his hour of need. Says a Western diplomat in Tehran: "I doubt...
...diplomats were skeptical about how long a Bakhtiar government may last, but they saw the Premier-designate as a moderate who just might be able to win the support of the Shah's opponents on both left and right. The French-educated Bakhtiar is a disciple of the late Premier Mohammed Mossadegh, in whose Cabinet he served as deputy Labor Minister before Mossadegh was overthrown in a 1953 CIA-backed coup that restored the Shah to his throne. Bakhtiar has long been an outspoken opponent of the Shah. He spent two years in prison for his activities with...
...wandering through East Cambridge with a camera, looking for urban landscapes and trying to feel like an artist. But after a couple of hours I had found nothing that would get me into the Museum of Modern Art and snow clouds were soaking up what was left of the late afternoon light. I decided to head home...
...notice how the snow glowed? Late that first night when it was still falling I went outside to watch. And I saw it: the whole sky was filled with green light...
...that group, 52 per cent said the University should "take whatever steps necessary" to change the name of the Kennedy School library, which is named after the late Charles W. Engelhard, an American businessman who built his fortune through mining interests in South Africa...