Word: placings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Robert Oppenheimer suggested the mesa between the Jemez and Sangre de Cristo mountains as the site for "Project Y" because it was one of his favorite places to hike. When the Army came in 1943 to build the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and develop the bomb, the only real homes were the vacated faculty houses of the exclusive Los Alamos Ranch School for Boys. Their most prized features were bathtubs. The lowly had to rough it in barracks-like apartments on "Gold Street" or in the clanging metal "Denver steels" hastily built with shower stalls only. Bachelor Klaus Fuchs...
...never yield to blackmail or international terrorism." Said he: "There are some conditions, prices, for the hostages that this country will not pay." Responding to a question about the debate that has already begun over whether he (hould have allowed the Shah to enter the U.S. in the first place, Carter stoutly declared that he had "no regrets and no apologies...
...Iranian economy and win the loyalty of subordinates by lavish financial favors. Nonetheless, the Shah in power lived very well, to put it mildly. He shuttled among five palaces in Iran. Journalist Fallaci, interviewing the Shah in 1973 in one of them, noted that "almost everything in the place was gold: the ashtray that you didn't dare dirty, the box inlaid with emeralds, the knickknacks covered with rubies and sapphires." The ruler's sisters also basked in opulence. Princess Ashraf Pahlavi owns two town houses and a lavish triplex coop apartment in Manhattan. Princess Shams is said...
...already been shed within the mosque; when several guards had tried to arrest Mohammed and his band, they had been killed. Outside the locked doors, Saudi authorities were baffled. The only way to open the doors was to blast them open with cannon. But to damage a holy place required a ruling by the 'Ulama, the kingdom's religious leaders...
...third day. The 'Ulama denounced the seizure of the Sacred Mosque as "a highly detestable and ignoble crime and an act of atheism in the House of God." Saudi troops blasted open the doors and charged the mosque, and the place became an inferno of fire and crossfire. No one knows how many died. Many Saudi soldiers were mowed down as they charged forward, chanting "To die in this battle is to enter paradise." Mohammed's men showed surprising skill in breaking up into small groups, setting up fields of fire, and counterattacking. Prince Sultan called for reinforcements...