Word: ouster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Name. Few countries have ever gone through so much ferment in so short a time as Turkey did in the years following the ouster of the Greeks and the end of the 600-year-old Turkish sultanate. Blindly bent on lifting his countrymen from Ottoman medievalism to Western modernity in one short haul, Ataturk converted Turkey into a facsimile of a parliamentary republic, fought an unending battle to break the influence of the Moslem clergy. Under his tireless prodding, Turks found themselves obeying not Islamic law but the Swiss Civil Code, writing not in Arabic script but a new Romanized...
...order") to relay casualty totals. When last Monday's school strike in Caracas proved a success, Newsman Szulc succeeded in getting a telephone connection to New York, dictated his entire story in Polish to his businessman-friend. The morning after Pérez Jiménez' ouster, early-rising Tad Szulc had the first press interview with Rear Admiral Wolfgang Larrazabal...
...Holaday Ouster Urged...
Just as meaningful as the Teamster ouster at the A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention was the appearance of Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell. He had come to Atlantic City to lay out the Eisenhower Administration's program for labor legislation in the next session of Congress. It amounted to some strong medicine for an ailing patient...
Contacted during a recess in his federal court trial on wiretap charges in New York, Hoffa said the ouster wouldn't weaken the union...