Word: builded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dangerous consequences," sturdy Adnan Menderes did not even bother to comment. Says one U.S. official, noting with rueful admiration that Turkey's 470,000-man army constitutes the biggest force contributed to NATO by any nation: "With most of our allies, the problem is to get them to build up to minimum strength. With the Turks, the problem is to get them to stop somewhere...
Once, during a Menderes visit to Bonn, West Germany's brilliant Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard cautiously suggested that it might be wiser for Turkey to build only two new cement factories instead of the twelve that Menderes planned. Smiling courteously, Turkey's Premier-who speaks English, French and Greek but no German-replied: "C'est line affaire de notre cuisine inteérieure." Explained an Erhard aide: "In good German, this means, 'That's none of your goddam business...
...Knock out the costly short-term acreage reserve phase of the soil bank and build up the long-term conservation reserve to encourage the retirement of marginal farm land from production for up to ten years...
...leaked the news that a plane carrying an atomic bomb had crashed without setting off a nuclear explosion. Plan behind the leak: to ease British uneasiness about SAC bombers operating over the British Isles. Behind the news is the story of how U.S. scientists have worked for years to build accident-proofing devices into Atomic Age bombs so that they cannot be accidentally set off in a crash-or even by blasts of high explosives. Proof of the scientists' success is the fact that not one but at least four bomb-lugging U.S. aircraft have crashed without nuclearexplosions...
...ills, broken homes, crime-ridden cities, imperfect governments and the even less perfect relationships among governments, are as pressing as any," he says. "And the humanities, which give quality to life and also to most of us our deepest understanding, must continue to be cultivated if we are to build and maintain a culture worth preserving, and produce people equipped in heart and mind to carry such large responsibility...