Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most of the two days. He found rats feeding on garbage, noticed a number of light fixtures and heating vents that did not work, and came across 16 apartments that were uninhabited be cause they become flooded whenever it rains. He listened to residents complain about marauding gangs. "We wonder why people get mad living there," he said later, promising federal funds and more city services to improve Bankhead...
Jugular Vein. Some of Iran's Arab neighbors wonder whether the Shah really needs all that expensive hardware and worry about his ambitions. "With each generation of weaponry," one Pentagon expert observes, "his defense perimeter expands." In answer, Iranians point out that they share a 1,100-mile border with the Soviet Union; and the Russians, they argue, have never really given up their interest in gaining control of Iran's oilfields some day. Iran also has an inimical and testy neighbor in Iraq, which has been massively supplied with Soviet weaponry. The forces of the two states...
...feared secret police organization which routinely scrutinizes even job applications and requests for exit visas. Its name is an acronym from the Farsi words Sazeman Ettelaat va Amniat Keshvar (Security and Information Organization). The Shah himself insists that SAVAK is not large, and some Western observers in Tehran wonder whether it is as efficient as Iranians believe. Nevertheless, the secret police, through a large network of informers, have been responsible for making countless arrests of leftists on occasionally vague anti-Shah charges and for at least 200 executions. The Shah, who has twice been a target of assassination attempts, travels...
Contrary to what certain people think, we are not hawks. We always try to be reasonable. But we also know what we are talking about. Sometimes I wonder why others want to be so generous [in attempting to lower oil prices] at our expense. These are people who say they want to bring prices down, but we have unveiled the true picture. Participation of 100% [referring to Saudi Arabia's expected takeover of Aramco] is going to increase the price of oil by at least another $ 1.10 per bbl. Nobody spoke about that until we unveiled...
ANYONE WHO HAS read Auden's earlier poetry must wonder why his genius petered out in this painful, disappointing way. Some have felt Auden's return to Christianity, capitalism and official morality to be the prime betrayal of his talent. But he continues to write great poetry after these ideological changes, during the Second World War and through the early fifties. Perhaps part of the answer lies in emotion instead of ideas--it seems that, after a certain point in his life, Auden became happy. As he explains in "Lullaby," he was "released at last/From lust for other bodies,/Rational...