Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most admired painters in Turkey these days is a ten-year-old boy named Hasan Kaptan. Boosters see in his work something of Picasso's lively lines and Matisse's blazing colors. For those not impressed by those qualities alone, his boosters can point to a large one-boy show in Paris last year, where the critics were enthusiastic, and to the fact that in three years young Hasan has sold some 55 of his button-bright pictures and earned more than...
Hasan himself was in Turkey, painting, going to school, and playing soccer in his spare time. There wasn't enough money to send him to the U.S. along with his paintings. But Hasan is bearing up. He would like to see the U.S. and "paint those majestic skyscrapers," but right now there's school, and it might not be a good idea to miss classes. As he admits himself, he is a little weak in arithmetic...
...turkey vulture (Cathartesaura] or buzzard...
After visiting Norway, Sweden and England, U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Hoyt S. Vandenberg settled down with his wife in Paris for a five-day stay and a round of official visits. Next major stops on his worldwide tour: Switzerland, Spain, North Africa, Italy, Turkey, Philippines, Korea, Japan, Alaska and "home, I hope...
...deep hatred of Lodge, not by any real agreement with Kennedy's ideas on foreign policy. The Taft forces could scarcely agree with a man like Kennedy who voted against a cut of $150 million in foreign aid in 1947; and for $400 million for Greece and Turkey, $350 million for foreign aid, and $597 million for Interim Aid the same year; for the Marshall Plan in 1948; for extension of ECA and for the Mutual Defense Act in 1949; for Aid to Korea (six months before the Korean War), the Far Eastern Assistance Act, and the $3.1 billion Foreign...