Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enjoy their commercial success, but they regard it as a pleasant way to pay for expensive research. Their leading interest is still animal psychology, and they are sure that they have learned enough already to help farmers control their animals. Example: a farmer should always be noisy in the turkey pen so that the turkeys will get used to noise and will not stampede and kill themselves during a thunderstorm...
Julius Holmes has not served in the Middle East since 1929 when he was vice consul at Smyrna (now Izmir), Turkey, but in London he was close to the Iranian oil negotiations...
...could let this country go to pot, like the forests in China, Greece, and Turkey. But I don't think we're going to let it, now. It's been awfully nice, just in my lifetime to see things being done to halt that trend. I've begun to learn something, to make a little advance on what my father knew. Someone's going to carry it on from here. Maybe my sons. I'd like that...
Last week, with the West now trying to make them realize a common need&#defense against Communism-the Arab League states broke into a noisy quarrel. The uproar was provoked by Iraq's decision to join a defense alliance with NATO member Turkey. Iraq's pact collided with the league's strictures against members joining in outside alliance. More to the point, it meant that Iraq, second strongest of the Arab nations, was openly challenging Egypt's position as the presumed leader of the Arab world...
...Baghdad. In nine days of table-pounding debate, Nasser fought to make the Iraqis back down from their commitment to Turkey. When Iraq refused to budge, the angry Premier demanded that the other league members join him in reading Iraq out of the league's collective security arrangements. Most of the others shared Egypt's irritation but demurred at going so far. Instead, they persuaded Nasser to adjourn the session while a planeload of Arab League representatives flew off to Baghdad to try to argue Iraq's Premier Nuri es-Said back into the fold...