Word: winningly
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Mosque & State. One reason for the current bitterness of Turkish politics is that Republicans fear that Menderes, to stay in power, is undoing the separation of mosque and state decreed by the late great Kemal Ataturk, founder of the Turkish Republic. To win favor in the devoutly Moslem countryside, Menderes has provided government funds for a vast mosque-building program, reintroduced religious instruction in the nation's primary schools, and encouraged the reading of the Koran over the state radio. To emancipated Turks, religious rule recalls the stifling, narrow days of the old Ottoman caliphate...
...discarded it. When she was in high school, her left leg was amputated below the knee. Then, with artificial legs and crutches, Anne could really walk. But as she advanced to college (St. Paul's Luther Junior College and the University of Minnesota), Anne found it harder to win acceptance than it had been among young children, and harder still to get the training she wanted to make her self-supporting as a teacher...
Died. Carlos Saavedra Lamas, 80, aristocratic, stiff-collared Argentine diplomat, only South American to win the Nobel Peace Prize (in 1936, for his work in ending the three-year-old Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay); of influenza; in Buenos Aires...
Seventeen years later, incapacitated in hermitlike seclusion in Santa Barbara, four years before his death, he had just enough of the Sherman combativeness to fight and win a last battle for a $50-a-month Army pension that was his due for service in the War of 1898. Father Tom's entry on his pension application blank for nearest relative to be notified in case of death: his dead father, General William Tecumseh Sherman...
...basis of its 5-1-1 record, it must be considered well above average. Club president Bill Morse last night felt that the Nomads would probably be at least as tough as Dartmouth, which earlier trounced the Crimson, 9 to 3, and has since gone on to win the Eastern Rugby Union title...