Word: flocks
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More Than Trust. In spite of all these troubles, the college had begun to occupy a special place in Turkey. When the Sultan's decree lost its power, young Turks began to flock to it. In the 1920s, the new republic was hungry for new ideas, and eventually Robert could claim such alumni as Selim Sarper, Turkey's Ambassador to the U.N., Haydar Cork, Ambassador to the U.S., and Kasim Gulek, secretary-general of the Republican People's Party. Robert has never tried to Americanize its students; it has merely tried to give them a first-rate...
...idea of peace, and of a multiracial India. In the 1951 general elections, Tara Singh's Shiromani Akali party lost heavily. "Ye unbelievers," cried old Tara Singh from out the depths of a magnificent beard, "there will come a time when you will need me and flock around me-for your very survival...
Affair of State. During World War II, musical Vienna continued to flock to the opera until all theaters were closed in 1944. Toward the war's end, the building was gutted by bombing. After liberation, one of the first decisions by a half-starved but undauntedly sentimental state was to rebuild the opera house...
...Kemper College, Nashotah House, Racine College, ¶ Daniel Sylvester Tuttle (1837-1923), the son of a Methodist blacksmith in Windham, N.Y., who was graduated from Columbia College and General Theological Seminary, became missionary bishop of Montana (with jurisdiction in Utah and Idaho). For a time he ministered to his flock from Helena, Mont., otherwise known as Last Chance Gulch. In 1886 big "Bishop Dan," bearded and baldheaded, became Bishop of Missouri. Though deaf as a doorstop from middle age, he presided ably over meetings with the aid of an "informer." When he died at 86, he had been a bishop...
...there become great men because he believed them great." Most important, he would back up his scientists against the most stubborn military conservatism. When Physicist Luis Alvarez invented G.C.A., he had little to support him but the faith of DuBridge. Then, one night in Britain, G.C.A. brought in a flock of lost 6-175. There was no opposition from Washington after that...