Word: mohammedanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Father of All the Turks (who left no legitimate heirs) was born in 1881 in Salonika, then part of the Ottoman Empire, of a mild Albanian father and a forceful Macedonian mother. Mustafa was a rebel from the start. His pious Mohammedan mother urged him to become a holy man, but he became a soldier; at 22, a captain, he rebelled against the Sultan and was nearly executed; at 27, he joined the Young Turks rebellion, then rebelled against the Young Turks. The army, fearful of him, shunted him from post to post, but could neither shake him nor subdue...
...same situation is touched upon in Kipling's poem The Mother-Lodge, where the membership, in addition to Protestant Anglo-Indians, a Jew and a Catholic, included a Hindu, a Mohammedan and a Sikh, so "we dursn't give no banquits / Lest a Brother's caste were broke...
...palace grounds in Marrakech, a photographer got a rare picture of the Sultan of Morocco at play. The result: a rubber-soled Mohammedan sovereign in Western dress and sub-Wimbledon form...
...East in 39 days, Allyn worked hard, as usual, to "make the people who work for you a part of your family.'' At each branch office, he gave a dinner for all the local employees. When his Singapore manager blanched at the idea, pointing out that the Mohammedan and Hindu workers would have to eat different food and be served by members of their respective religions, Allyn ordered separate tables, kitchens and waiters so the dinner could be attended...
Adventurous doctors could make a good guess that the job would take them to a Mohammedan court,, somewhere on the dry but oil-rich Arabian peninsula. By week's end, six well-qualified couples had applied...