Word: kamal
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...road for the convenience of tourists, and recently, the workmen demolished an ancient wall, shoveled away a layer of sand and exposed a 150-yd. row of massive limestone blocks, each 15 ft. long and tightly sealed with pink gypsum. It looked like some sort of pavement, but Kamal el Malakh, Egyptian archaeologist in charge of the pyramids, suspected that the stones might be the roof of a long underground chamber. The tomb of Pharaoh Cheops had never been found. It might just possibly, he thought, lie under the row of stones...
...week the seesaw teetered crazily. It began with Naguib on top. Bounding happily out of a meeting of the R.C.C., he told the waiting mob: "There is good news for you." Grimly, R.C.C. Secretary Major Kamal Hussein announced the details: on July 24 the two-year-old revolution would end. A parliament elected by the old parties would take over...
From Turkey: Ahmed Emin Yalman, editor of Istanbul's newspaper Vatan (Fatherland), is a small, mild-mannered man with an immense capacity for daring independence. He finished his education in the U.S. (three years at Columbia University), then started his paper in 1923, after helping to bring gusty Kamal Atatürk to power. In 1925 Atatürk suspended Ahmed Emin's paper for ten years because he had criticized Government policies. In 1935 Ahmed Emin took up where he had left off. During the war, Vatan was one of the few journals in Turkey which strongly...
...almost as great as Inönä's, the Democrats made a strong showing in urban centers. Pending official figures, Ankara dopesters expected the Democrats to get 50 to 100 seats. Bayar's followers chortled that Inonii himself, revered as the successor of the great Kamal Atatürk, ran sixth in a field of 17 candidates in the Ankara district...
...with his country's past. Inönii, coming from truly Oriental forebears, is satisfied to let the Westernization jell. He will never be dignified by such a statue as the one of Kamâl Atatürk which dom inates the Golden Horn, showing the great Kamal in a dinner jacket with cuffs on the trousers. Yet when Inb'nu. soon after taking office, had to decide whether to ally Turkey with Britain and France or whether to attempt Oriental isolation, he chose the European alliance...