Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of the excitement of the R.O.T.C. courses comes in the summer months when the men go on training tours. In the winters, the semi-service life isn't as spectacular...
Ankara has become a spectacular mudslinger's paradise. Competing in strong invective, Democrats charge Republicans were corrupt, and Republicans torment Democrats for unfulfilled election promises. The partisan press, now free as the wind off the Taurus mountains, got so abusive toward ex-President Ismet Inönü that he refused to go to a diplomatic party given by President Bayar last month...
...past 400 years and with a half-million men now under arms, the Turks are undismayed at their exposed position on Soviet Russia's southern flank. They are glad the world is beginning to realize that they have not lost their ancient talent for fighting. The news of spectacular Turkish feats in Korea did not amaze Tahir Atar, a villager from Mengen in central Anatolia. Said he last week: "We knew what our kids could accomplish, but our friends, the Americans, didn't. Now they know-and so do the mosk...
...conditions, and on Saturday only a battle-hardened North Korean could have stood the bitter cold for very long. The whole business of ski jumping is rather repetitious, give or take a few feet in distance, and those morbid thrill-seekers who waited in hopes of seeing a spectacular spill were disappointed, fortunately...
...seething energy have created Latin America's biggest news empire, and made him very nearly the most powerful man in Brazil. He first fireballed into Rio in 1917 as a brash young lawyer from the north with a driving urge to write for the newspapers. After a spectacular career as reporter and editor, he borrowed 3,000,000 cruzeiros in 1925 and bought his first newspaper, Rio's O Jornal. Generally regarded as Brazil's top reporter, he competed with his own staffers for scoops. He tangled with almost everybody. "I'm like a loaf...