Word: turk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Captain Jay (Sailor) Byrne and Bill Spence are holdovers from last year's defense. Munro plans to fit Paul Jones, top sophomore prospect, with the two veterans, keeping Ned Maroni and Turk Broder in reserve...
...days later, after brisk conferences with Turkey's ministers and military men and a hasty sightseeing tour, the general left Turkey, deeply impressed "at finding people with a will to fight if they have to." "We consider him 'our commander' now," said one admiring young Turk...
...approached last week, the government prepared for it with a sort of dazed reverence. The ministers scuttled between the two capitals in a borrowed U.N. plane, to arrange a three-day celebration. Someone got the loan of a U.S. howitzer for a 101-shot salute, then found an old Turk who thought he knew how to fire it. A team of G.I. technicians visited the King in his dagger-hung study, to record his independence proclamation for broadcast. The King patiently reread the speech four times and then, when it was played back on a wire recorder, widened his eyes...
...thoroughbred is a member of a specific breed of running horse, pedigreed descendants in, the direct male line to one or other of three specific "founding fathers"-the Byerly Turk, imported into England in 1689, the Darley Arabian, in 1704, the Godolphin Arabian, in 1728.* All other "pedigreed" animals, whatever their genus, species, breed or variety, are "purebred" or "standardbred." Racing harness horses, pacers or trotters are standardbreds, no matter how much thoroughbred blood may have been used in that breed's creation. All dogs which are not cross-breds or mongrels, but members of established recognized breeds...
...helping the Turk is by no means finished. The load of supporting his military establishment is simply too great for his economy. This year alone his deficit, out of a total budget of 1.5 billion Turkish lira ($530 million), is 234 million lira. In 1946, the last year before we joined up with Turkey, the army cost 40.59% of the country's budget. We have cut this to 30.9% and trimmed an oversize force of 900,000 men to just about half that, and at the same time actually doubled its firepower...