Word: mufti
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strategy and the Soviets. Since 1976 he has interposed a three-year stint as Moscow bureau chief between two tours as TIME's defense correspondent. For this story, he interviewed civilian and military experts, and found, surprisingly, that "the glittery-eyed spinners of strategic schemes are in mufti. The officers who have custody of nuclear weapons are cautious and undramatic...
...hideout near the pyramids of Giza. It was also sanctioned by a fundamentalist group in the southern city of Asyut, which had launched attacks on police stations in Asyut soon after Sadat was killed. Finally, the plan was accepted by the plotters' spiritual leader, a blind mufti named Omar Ahmed Abdel Rahman, who had $20,000 in crisp new bills concealed in his underclothing when he was arrested after the assassination...
...says, laughing. A cab driver this morning gave her an "uh-huh" reaction when she said she was a model. The days are gone, clearly, when a model getting out of a New York taxi meant furs, a flash of great legs and a telltale hatbox. Clotilde's mufti is early L.L. Bean ? galluses, a checked shirt and baggy cords ? because it is easy and inconspicuous, unlikely to attract muggers in the scruffy neighborhoods where photographers' studios are often located. What Clotilde and most of the other successful models do a lot of is the misty, haunting Sears...