Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miraculous West Germany, tough Turkey, battle-tested Spain and reborn Greece," the three Senators found allies who "will fight Soviet aggression to the death." Given proper equipment, these countries alone could stop a conventional Russian ground attack, the Senators thought. Their conclusion: "It is time to quit wringing our hands and talking in tones of despair...
...England, Scotland, France, French Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Germany, Libya, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Austria...
...Canakkale, Turkey, Swimmer Florence Chadwick rounded out a breathless grand slam of four channels in five weeks by swimming the Dardanelles in the round-trip time of less than two hours in the choppy waters. Now the conqueror of the English Channel, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Bosporus and the Dardanelles, Swimmer Chadwick, 33, announced her retirement: "This is a sport for younger people. I think I'll take up golf." ¶ For an estimated $8,000 a year, First Lieut. Arnold Galiffa. 26, onetime West Point quarterback and 1949 All-America, gave up his Army career after three...
...TURKEY became the Middle East's most modern state in a generation and through the efforts of one man. Kemal Ataturk, a rough, hard-drinking neurotic who combined traces of Lincoln's vision and Stalin's ruthlessness, established the Turkish Republic, ran it like a dictatorship, topped it off with a tailor-made opposition. Modern Turkey, striving to be even more modern, still needs capital, roads, teachers, more private enterprise...
...keep outsiders from rushing in to join them. Thanks to U.S. military aid. the Turks now have Europe's second-largest standing army (No. 1: Russia): 450,000 soldiers equipped with tanks and jet aircraft to button down the free world's southern flank. A poor nation, Turkey devotes almost 40% of its budget to its defenses, and counts the money well spent, for the nation mortally hates and fears the "Moskofs." Say the Turks: the only way a Moskof can get to Istanbul is by buying a ticket on the Orient Express...