Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republicans were led by their old hero, Ismet Inonu, 73, World War II President and chosen successor of the late great Kemal Ataturk himself. They charged that Menderes' reckless extravagance had only created economic chaos, that foreigners now refuse to ship Turkey even vital medicines without cash on the barrelhead, that the only thing Turkey has plenty of is yok (nothing). They complained that Menderes had suppressed freedom of the press, packed the courts to rubber-stamp his decisions, and altered the election code to keep opposition parties from forming coalition slates. Yet the windup rallies in Istanbul were...
...guess for a rather sentimental memorial. On the other hand, Mr. Williams competes in a way with Thomas's own unforgettable readings of his works, which are quite well-known on record and from his personal appearances in this country, although none of the works that Mr. Williams has chosen have been recorded...
...CALLED AND THE CHOSEN (306 pp.) −Monica Baldwin−Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...
...Winkle-ish appeal: it drew the portrait of a woman trained in the leisurely graces of pre-World War I society trying to cope with the rough-and-tumble era of World War II, after nearly three decades of being out of the world. In The Called and the Chosen, continuing her literary role as a kind of Thomas Merton-in-reverse, 59-year-old Author Baldwin leaps again...
...Radcliffe hockey team placed two of its members on the all-college team at the annual Wellesley hockey playday Saturday. Halfbacks Ann Brace and Judy Fisher made the first team while Louise Bickford, fullback, was chosen to play on the second team, and Lyssa McSherry, forward, won honorable mention...