Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eichmann, a top Nazi official, to listen to a proposition. "I want to do business," Eichmann told them. "Blood for goods, goods for blood. I am willing to sell one million Jews for ten thousand trucks, a thousand cans of coffee and tea and some soap. Go to Switzerland, Turkey, Spain-go where you will, but bring me back goods...
...Organization for European Economic Cooperation includes Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, West Germany. The U.S. and Canada are associated countries...
...English maidservant named Mary Fisher stood before the court of the Sultan of Turkey, as anomalous as a pair of shoes in a mosque, and told its zealous Moslem members about the virtues of Christianity. Her presence there, alone and defenseless, bore witness to the compelling nature of the Quaker "concern," a strong inward urge to take some action to meet a certain situation. Mary Fisher satisfied her concern, was respectfully heard and allowed to depart in peace...
...when the Red army occupied the northern half of the country and the British the 29 southern. The British paid for what they used or took; the Russians had not. Russia's belated paying-up is presumably intended to lure Iran away from the northern-tier alliance of Turkey, Iraq and Pakistan. But most Iranians seemed to regard the transaction as merely getting back what belonged to them all along...
...Saudi Arabia - 121 of them Aramco employees - and U.S. oilmen cannot get an official explanation. The unofficial explanation is that King Saud is taking capricious revenge on Hashimites (a rival Arab dynasty that gets on reasonably well with Palestinians). Hashimite Iraq recently signed a defense treaty with NATO partner Turkey, thereby splitting up the neutral Arab bloc for the first time. King Saud, one of 40 sons of the late great Lion of the Desert Ibn Saud, has not yet proven himself as lionhearted as his father, and reportedly lives in fear that his enemies may kill him. A recent...