Word: mossadegh
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...fortnight ago, Mohammed Mossadegh, the Lion of Abadan, decided to survey his political fences after 14 months as Premier. He called a few Majlis leaders to his big beige brick house and asked: "Well, what do you think of my policies, generally?" Said a deputy, after a long pause: "We've always been in favor of everything you've done, Your Excellency, but . . ." Mossadegh cut in impatiently: "That's it! That 'but'! You approve of everything I do, but you always nullify it with...
...advice to Dr. Mossadegh [TIME, April 21] is to stop his fits of weeping and fainting and come to a suitable agreement with both sides to put his house in order instead of whining to the U.S. for help in his folly...
...MOHAMMED MOSSADEGH...
Apparently the British did not consider Hilaly a strong enough man to bother trying to save. Britain's critics in the Middle East, who are numerous and noisy, saw it another way: once again Britain was foolishly letting down a friend, and inviting a Mossadegh kind of successor...
These words of a song called Try, wildly sobbed, gulped, gurgled and wailed, last week were beginning to ooze out of radios and jukeboxes across the land at a depressing rate. In Los Angeles, one adolescent worshiper of Crooner Johnny Ray, the Mossadegh of music, hurried to a friend to confide: "The guy went clear out on this one-he sounds like he really broke up." Other devotees, sharp enough to sniff a burlesque on their idol, launched an avalanche of protests at hilarious disk jockeys and at Capitol Records...