Word: commandeered
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...sparse diet of rice, bean curd, yogurt and raw onions, supplemented now and then by a slice of melon or a bit of mutton. There are some signs that power has begun to intoxicate him. He has admitted enjoying the adulation of the crowds, and he took personal command of the government, though he had originally said he would not, apparently because he decided no one else could be trusted to carry out God's will. Another Iranian ayatullah has observed that Khomeini, because of his long career in opposition to the Shah, is "a good wrecker...
...Ehrlichmans, Colsons and so on, sat down at tape recorder and typewriter and produced books to cash in on the scandal. A headlong rush to excess profits was joined in the '70s by oil companies, sports stars negotiating multimillion-dollar contracts and writers whose most meretricious junk could command seven-figure advances...