Word: accordance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mutual Accord. In 1945, pleading ill health, she left Persia for a visit to Egypt. She never came back. Mohamed Reza blamed her brother Farouk for influencing her against him. Meanwhile, the young Shah's father, tough old self-made Reza Shah Pahlevi, died in exile in South Africa and Mohamed Reza made arrangements to bring his body back to Persia. The body was duly shipped via Cairo, where the Egyptians sidetracked it into a small local mosque. Ever since then Egyptians and Persians have been dickering over a suitable divorce settlement for Fawzia. "No settlement, no body...
...CRIMSON did not participate in these discussions, perhaps assuming at the time that no editorial whatsoever was a blessing more in accord with the season than any argument could hope to be. By now it seems that society has withstood the ordeal, and the question of "when" is as dry as last year's wishbone. What about the purpose of thanksgiving...
...report also recommended that the University provide wider specialist service, perhaps with the cooperation of the Medical School, suggested that a University drug dispensary be set up, and asked for free chest X-rays and the "same deference" that the Department doctors would accord to "paying patients...
There was some resentment among some Europeans because the U.S. had been called on to intervene. But "Robert Marjolin, secretary general of the OEEC (Organization for European Economic Cooperation), happily burbled: "No one can underestimate the magnitude of this accord...
...audience. The challenge offered by William Shakespeare in "The Taming of the Shrew," for instance, was met on the more or less neutral grounds of Mutual Hall last week and the Trib players won by a technical knockout, a decision with which the audience seemed clearly in accord. Mr. Duvey had rounded up some clever, earthy comedians and they succeeded in making "The Taming of the Shrew" a lot of fun for everyone...