Word: monthlong
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...military threat happened to coincide with the start of Muharram, a monthlong sacred period for Iran's dominant Shi'ite Muslims, which this year begins the Islamic 15th century. Last year it also marked the start of mass demonstrations that eventually brought down the Shah, and thus it has acquired a revolutionary tinge. Excited by that combination, roaring crowds numbering in the tens of thousands surrounded the embassy. Their frenzy was so great that even the youths occupying the embassy urged the mob through loudspeakers to calm down. Dozens of people fainted in the crush and were passed unconscious over...
Along with the rest of the Islamic world, Iranians last week began their monthlong observance of Ramadan, when devout Muslims are expected to fast from dawn until sunset. The new revolutionary government in Tehran did its best to ensure that the fast was observed Restaurants and snack bars closed during the daylight hours. The Minister of Interior ordered police to arrest anybody caught eating, drinking or smoking in public. Shutters were also drawn on the country's cinemas and few remaining theaters. Regular radio and television programming was suspended in favor of religious readings from the Koran...
...last October and completely shut down exports on Dec. 26, but the resulting shortage in world crude supplies has not yet significantly hit oil-thirsty consumers. The crunch of '79, however, will soon become real enough to hurt. The last tankers loaded with Iranian crude have completed their monthlong, 11,000-mile voyage to America's East Coast ports and more and more large U.S. oil companies are cautiously beginning to husband their stockpiles to prepare for a long energy siege...
Shopping is not as much fun as it used to be. During peak buying seasons like the monthlong countdown to Christmas that begins every year after Thanksgiving, it can be downright agony for some people. Parking is a pain, stores are crowded, and sales clerks are often inexperienced or hard to find. One result has been a burst of new activity in an old idea: mail order. Not since Chicago Merchant Aaron Montgomery Ward put out his first "catalogue"-a one-page number flogging bed ticking, hoop skirts and $8 ladies' watches-almost a century ago has there been...
There will undoubtedly be some people who will always believe a fourth shot was fired. But at the halfway point of the monthlong hearings on the Kennedy assassination, the overwhelming weight of evidence heard by the committee points to the same conclusion reached by the Warren Commission: Oswald, acting alone, killed Kennedy...