Word: persia
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...book to them; so was Europe." The museum began collecting samples from the great periods in history: Egyptian art back to 3,000 B.C., a richly-tooled gold funeral wreath from ancient Greece, a Chinese urn from the Han dynasty, a fine green glaze beaker from the 15th century Persia. In painting, Chillman stuck to such safe and sure old masters as Fra Angelico Bellini, Rembrandt, such French impressionists as Cézanne and Renoir, and a gallery of popular Americans from John Singer Sargent to Cowboy Artists Frederic Remington...
...wait to see who was knocking. He bounded from his bed and scooted out the back door, to the nearby compound of the U.S. Point Four program. There he caught his breath, then scurried to the Majlis building. The incongruous, pajama-clad frame of the wrinkled Wizard of Persia burst into the middle of the closed session. Mossadegh announced that he was claiming bast, the traditional privilege of political sanctuary...
...Finished. All of this was a sudden and smart rebuff for the man who had twisted the tail of the British lion, stood steadfast against the pleadings of the mighty U.S., snatched Iran's caviar out of the mouths of the big Russians and made all Persia his flying carpet...
Iran. "On the basis of my studies and sojourn in Persia, I am convinced that Persia is now entering a period of chaos and anarchy . . . From the times of Darius and Cyrus, Persia has known only peace through a strong man ... To prate of democracy to the Persians is like advocating prohibition to the denizens of hell." Childs believes that "the money we are pouring into Persia is money thrown down a drain," and that the U.S. faces "the alternative of seeing Russia take over the whole of Persia or, if we are sufficiently farsighted, only the northern half...
...assembled guests watched a movie of the pipeline's construction, and applauded vigorously at the progress it augured. "You can be bloody sure," an I.P.C. press-agent confided to a newsman, "that we're not going to make the same mistakes Anglo-Iranian made in Persia...