Word: bulgares
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...import wheat; today she is the No. 4 wheat exporter in the world. In the same three years, Turkey's tractors increased by 900%, farm acreage 25%, mileage of all-weather roads 100%, port capacity 250%, cotton output 300%. Yet these are the people of whom the Bulgar peasant used to say, making the sign of the cross: "No grass grows where the Turk's horse treads...
...summer long, Greek and Bulgar soldiers had lurked along the Evros, taking potshots at one another. The most serious skirmishes occurred on three swampy sandbanks named Alpha, Beta and Gamma that lie in the lee of the wooded Greek shore. Then one day last month a Greek patrol on Gamma island, which is about the size of a football field, walked into a Bulgar ambush and lost four men killed and two wounded. It became painfully clear to the Greeks that the Bulgars, egged on by the Russians who have a tank army close to the Evros, were determined...
...Spears, Yale fullback, will receive the Bulgar Lowe award as New England's outstanding college football player at an annual dinner of the Gridiron Club in Boston tomorrow evening...
...consequence not of Communist weakness but of Communist strength. Before the war, few national Communist parties questioned Russia's leadership. But when the Reds actually conquered power, or came close to it, in half a dozen European countries, personal ambition and the patriotism of a Yugoslav or a Bulgar or a Frenchman, even though Communist, was apt to be stronger than loyalty to Moscow...
Sofia wired, with Bulgar bravado, that it could not be bothered with the continental recovery program because it had a more important matter in train, to wit: "[Bulgaria] has already begun the realization of her own economic plan...