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Word: shahs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent years, the Moslem secret societies (the Moslem Brotherhood, the Crusaders of Islam, the Arab Sacrifice League) have murdered: one King (Jordan's Abdullah) and one President; four Prime Ministers; two cabinet ministers; one police chief, one judge, and one army commander in chief. Near misses: one Shah, one Premier. Two agents of the Moslem Brotherhood were reported last week to be trailing King Farouk on the Riviera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: The Locomotive | 9/10/1951 | See Source »

When Harriman emplaned a few days later, the Foreign Minister was at hand to say goodbye. The Premier sent a huge bouquet of pink gladioli for Mrs. Harriman. Among the many gifts: an Isfahan rug (for Truman) and an antique rifle (for Harriman) from the Shah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: CITY IN TERROR | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

Amiable Negotiator Stokes, whose nickname is "Slap & Tickle Dick," was not tickled. He snapped: "I am not a great believer in bargaining." Still, Mediator Harriman persevered. He saw the young Shah, who is reasonable but ineffectual. The Shah himself tried to conciliate Mossadeq, who finally blew up, said: "Do you want me to resign?" There it was; the Shah had to back down. The fact was that the oil dispute, which stretched back 20 years, had become for Iranians a cause beyond common sense. They desperately needed British technicians, and they could not possibly get along without British marketing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Towards the Bitter End | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

...week's end, some 200 members of the fanatical Fedayan Islam charged through Teheran's streets to the Shah Mosque, knifing six policemen on the way, shouting: "Stokes, take your proposal to the grave with you." Mullah Kashani, spiritual leader of the terrorists, unblinkingly told Stokes, who came to pay a call: "Tell the British government that if Dr. Mossadeq deviates one iota from oil nationalization, the Iranian people will dispatch him to the next world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Towards the Bitter End | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

...first official move, Stokes lunched at the royal palace, presented the Shah and his consort with overflowing baskets of gladioli, orchids, fruit brought from Britain; Teheran papers promptly saw a favorable omen for the talks. This week, Stokes, who glories in the role of a hardhitting, U.S.-type businessman, will sit down at the conference table with the Iranians. Hovering in the background, ready with soothing words and compromise suggestions, is the one hero of the crisis: tireless W. Averell Harriman. His performance so far: excellent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: O, Thou Aged Traitor! | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

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