Word: turk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were specific disappointments. French nationalists complained that the NATO leaders had not given France the ringing endorsement it sought for its Algerian policies. In the Arab nations of the Middle East there was widespread wrath at Turkey's Adnan Menderes. "The Turk will never understand the Arab," complained a Lebanese daily, outraged because Menderes had not pushed at Paris for the current Arab dream of forcing Israel back inside the restricted borders granted it by the U.N. in 1947. Fearful of just such a maneuver, Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion tried to counter by sending...
Next day in Nicosia, 300 students armed themselves with empty Coca-Cola bottles, stones and iron bars, locked themselves on the roof of a school library. They pelted "Black Turk" police in the square below, beat back attempts to storm the library entrance. Security forces broke the siege only after firing volleys of tear gas and charging in with batons for hand-to-hard fighting. The same day, a rumor swept Nicosia of the murder of two Turks by EOKA's Greek terrorists. Turk Cyprors stormed out of their quarters, sacked a Greek church and five shops...
...Hugh Fo:)t had arrived to take over as Britain's new governor. Cyprus quickly learned that it had a new kind of governor. Unarmed and unguarded, Foot walked through the streets of Nicosia to assess the damage, mingled with shopkeepers. "A governor with guts," admitted Greek and Turk alike, and cheered him. Next day Foot paid a surprise visit to twelve Greek women terrorists held in Nicosia's central prison, ordered two of them released immediately on grounds of health...
...Sacred Wood, After Strange Gods) distills the essential similarities of two works centuries apart, Paradise Lost and Finnegans Wake: "Two books by great blind musicians, each writing a language of his own based upon English." Only once does he commit one of those calculated critical indiscretions of his Young Turk days when he dubbed Hamlet a "failure." Immersed in recent years in the poetic drama, Eliot permits himself the absurdity of suggesting that the early verse plays of Yeats "are probably more permanent literature than the plays of Shaw...
...Turk's Talk...