Word: turk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Texas Playboy Sheppard ("Abdullah") King, "tired of playing cat and mouse" with his Egyptian belly-dancing wife, Samia Gamal, announced that he was throwing her over for another torso-tosser named Nejla Ates, a 21-year-old Turk. After sparking Nejla between the acts in a Manhattan nightspot, Shep brayed happily: "She has everything-plus castanets." They would marry as soon as he could divorce Samia, who, he predicted, would "flip her lid" at the news. In far off Cairo, Samia got the news but played it cool: "He may want to know that I had a very disdainful smile...
Most of them said "sir," even to enlisted attendants. A few, glancing through new magazines, asked: "Who's this Marilyn Monroe dame?" A Turk spotted the Turkish flag hanging among others, buried his face in it, and cried, when an officer took it down and gave it to him. One prisoner walked all around a room, sticking close to the wall, when he might have strolled right across. A 50-year-old U.S. warrant officer bounced on an air mattress in the Freedom Village Red Cross lounge, drawled: "I just love to sit here and look at those capitalistic...
Salute for a Pfc. By11 a.m. all of the 100 U.N. soldiers had been delivered. The non-Koreans included 30 Americans, twelve British, four Turks, one each from Canada, the Philippines, South Africa, Greece. Among these were four stretcher cases-three Americans and one Turk...
Last week he slipped into Bremen from Istanbul and in waterfront bars rounded up the 40 Turkish crewmen of the Raman, an aged (1917), U.S.-built tanker of 7,800 tons which had found its way into Mardin's small merchant fleet. Five of the Turks sidled on to a German tugboat lashed alongside the Raman, and kept the tug's nightwatchman busy with a merry prattle in Turkish and gifts of Turkish cigarettes. The rest boarded the Raman and fired up her wheezy engines. Within minutes, the tanker edged away from the dock, dragging the tug with...
...year-old Turk...