Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Richard N. Frye, Associate Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, will direct the conference on "Egypt, Pakistan, and Turkey-an Islamic Renaissance...
...open discussion of the economic and military advantages of dealing with the West. Nasser agreed to set another meeting for Jan. 10 to discuss their complaint, but the meeting was never held because Iraq said it could not come. Iraq was already, it turned out, preparing its deal with Turkey...
After seven days of friendly talk in Baghdad, Premiers Adnan Menderes of Turkey and Nuri es-Said of Iraq jointly announced last week their decision to sign a mutual defense pact. Washington and London were pleased: the joining of oil-rich Iraq to NATO member Turkey is the first major break in the log jam of Arab neutrality. But in Cairo, the news caused consternation...
Accompanied by his Foreign Minister and a formidable 27-man delegation, Turkey's Premier Adnan Menderes journeyed last week to neighboring Iraq, on the first visit of a Turkish head of state to Baghdad since Iraq freed itself of the Ottomans in 1918. He got a royal welcome. Menderes' mission: to persuade Iraq to join its fellow Moslems in the U.S.-blessed Turkish-Pakistan defense pact, designed to protect the Middle East's "northern tier" from Russia (TIME, March 1). Iraq already has long standing commercial and diplomatic ties with Britain, and two large R.A.F. bases...
...least five of the following tastes : comics, spaceship adventure books, U.S. jazz, iced soft drinks, the movies, the radio, sports, chewing gum or hot-rods." Most notably, they must know the vocabulary. Samples: "phantasmagoric," "atomic" or "pyramidal" (for great), "pineapple" and "mango" (for a kiss), "curse of the green turkey buzzard" and "horror, horror, three times horror!" (as all-purpose exclamations of surprise or distaste...