Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Turkey. The Soviet Union offered to recognize Turkish sovereignty over border territories of Kars. Ardahan and Artvin in return for a pledge by Turkey to ask for a revision of the 1936 Montreux Convention. Kars, Ardahan and Artvin, part of the old Ottoman Empire, were ceded to Russia after the Russo-Turkish War of 1877, returned to Turkey after World War I, but have been the subject of ceaseless Soviet agitation ever since. The Montreux Convention is an international agreement (signed by Turkey, Britain, France, the Soviet Union, Bulgaria. Greece, Japan, Rumania and Yugoslavia) which regulates the Dardanelles...
...Yalta and Potsdam, Stalin suggested that the Montreux Convention should be modified to allow Soviet bases to be built in the area in order to protect the Black Sea mouth. The result of Stalinist bluntness has been seven years of Russo-Turkish hostility and Turkey's growing friendship for the West, culminating in full membership in NATO and a military alliance with Greece and Yugoslavia. In last week's note, Russia renounced its desire for bases on the Dardanelles, spoke only of a friendly solution to the Dardanelles problem. The Turkish government was reported ready to participate...
Churchill found the Turks just as aware as he that the Russians can reinstate their claims on Turkish territory by a mere telephone call, whereas air bases take months or years to build, and are useless until completed. "In her history," he concluded, "Turkey has had [many] reassuring messages of this kind from Russia, but she always found it wiser not to be reassured...
...Tipperary blue, can be seen the heritage of an Irish volunteer detachment that fought there a century ago.The Tehuanas show off their beauty with a graceful carriage, gained by balancing burdens on their heads. They dress up in expensive, full-skirted costumes, often rich purple or Turkey red; at fiestas they wear necklaces made from old U.S. five-to 50-dollar gold pieces. Easy-laughing, they are honest, independent and, as the bulging-eyed gringo tourist who has seen the unabashed Tehuanas bathing in the river can testify, painstakingly clean. Inhibitions hardly exist, as even their superstitions show...
...tasteless sentence," and suggested Times-men write with "prep school kids in mind constantly. You'll need them to pay your salary by and by." After discovering "Thanksgiving has come and gone and Christmas is upon us and there doesn't seem to have been a single turkey dinner served up in the news columns 'with all the fixin's,'" Bernstein joyfully wrote: "Innkeeper, wine all around!" He also pounces on sloppy checking of names. When a story from Germany mentioned "Shepherd Stone," Bernstein noted tartly: "He used to work here [as assistant Sunday editor...