Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...complained, "We know that a new constitution is about to be imposed on us, but since we do not know what it contains we cannot contest it. We can merely protest against the undemocratic way that the entire revolutionary aftermath is being handled." Given the theocratic rule now taking shape in Iran, Atapour may have taken a big risk by publishing that lament. Events in Iran last week made it clear that his prediction could turn out to be right...
That adoring reception proved, if proof was needed, that Khomeini remains the pivotal figure in a revolution that is still taking shape and is far from under control. In fact, uncertainty about the Ayatullah's intentions had threatened the fledgling government of his hand-picked Prime Minister, Mehdi Bazargan. On the eve of Khomeini's departure from Tehran, Bazargan leveled an emotional attack on the Komiteh, an 80-member group controlled by Khomeini and made up of mullahs and other Iranians with fervent Islamic convictions...
...addition to a solid gold tray, on which stood a pair of solid gold camels beneath two solid gold palm trees. Bahrain gave her a solid gold palm tree, 18 inches high, that was hung with pearls representing dates, as well as a gold brooch in the shape of a sailing ship, studded with diamonds and rubies. Kuwait's offering: a double string of pearls and a solid silver model of an Arab TIM GRAHAM dhow. In Saudi Arabia, she picked up a gold incense burner, an amethyst-studded gold tray, a gold coffee jug shaped like a falcon...
Eventually Williams returned to San Francisco, where he hung around the city's small comedy clubs. While tending bar, he met a dancer named Valerie Valardi, whom he married last June. Valerie urged him to try the clubs in Los Angeles; she helped catalogue his material and shape his act. Once Williams had played Los Angeles' Comedy Store and Improvisation, he began to get TV work...
...exertions toward increasing Faculty involvement in tutorials. Bowersock is counting on this "power of persuasion" to give teeth to the reforms. Nonetheless, dangling additional faculty appointments before department heads does not address the central issue. Faculty attitude toward the personalized approach of the tutorial process must change, not the shape or size of the reward offered to departments to lure them back to teaching...