Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Against the Wall. Nearly 100 women showed up that evening for Aileen Holtje's wedding shower at the Udall Community Center, built with funds raised by turkey raffles and square dances. Men waited across the street in Eddie Taylor's pool hall. The women sang School Days, put on skits, served coffee and cup cakes and eyed Aileen's presents. The shower broke up early, and the cleanup committee put off dishwashing until the next day; only a dozen women were still there when suddenly the lights went out. Then they heard the noise. Someone said...
...bases in Europe. The result is that Yugoslavia's army of some 250,000 well-trained men is the biggest in Europe outside the Iron Curtain. In 1953 Tito drew even closer to the West by signing a regional pact of mutual assistance with NATO partners Greece and Turkey, but he has carefully shied away from NATO...
ATOMS -FOR -PEACE program pledged to the world by President Eisenhower is moving faster. Next bilateral agreement for sharing U.S. materials and know-how will be with the Philippine republic (first country: Turkey). Japan's Cabinet has also voted to accept a U.S. offer of enough uranium for a pilot reactor...
...Premier Adnan Menderes in Bel grade last week, "is more of a feeling than a conception based on hard fact." On a four-day state visit to Yugoslavia, the Turk was doing his best to persuade the third partner in the three-ply Balkan pact (Turkey-Greece-Yugoslavia) to forget its dreams of peaceful coexistence with Rus sia and to cast its lot with the Western nations in NATO, as Greece and Turkey have done. In a succession of state banquets, his hosts listened respectfully, protested their deep friendship, but acted as if the Balkan pact was primarily cultural...
...time had come to resign. Said Fairless: "There must always be room at the top of our management team for young men with young ideas and a fresh, new outlook." At that, the stockholders all got up and sang Happy Birthday, then sat down to a lunch of cold turkey, ham, salad, pie and coffee...