Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Most of them in the tradition of Union soldiers, who dubbed it the Virginia or Tennessee quickstep, depending on where they were campaigning. Currently popular: turista in most of Latin America; "Aztec two-step" or "Montezuma's revenge" in Mexico; "Turkey trot" and "Gyppy tummy" in the Middle East; "Delhi belly" in India; and-universally-"the trots" and "the G.I.'s" referring not to government issue but to gastrointestinal symptoms...
...producers' nightmares, there is one recurring terror: the Broadway opening with a surefire smash, and no reviewers aboard to hail it-a fate nearly as bad as the common torture of watching the grim-faced judges show up to pan a feared-for turkey. Last week one dreamed terror became real. A strike forced Manhattan's seven major dailies into silence (see PRESS) and only one of the city's four new Broadway plays (S. N. Behrman's The Cold Wind and the Warm) had the full tide of critical scrutiny. Dutifully, reviewers hunched down...
...only one respect is the statement about lack of progress correct, and that is in describing the Turkish position. Whereas five years ago Turkey said next to nothing about Cyprus, the issue is now considered important enough for the Turkish foreign minister to make the trip to the UN this year to put forth his country's claim personally. It is hoped, however, that the Turks can be persuaded to see that their true interest lies in dropping their ridiculous claim for partition (even the British have ruled partition out as unfeasible) and instead of further exacerbating the situation...
Fate Accompli. In Southampton, England, 21-year-old Pakhar Singh told army recruiters that he had hitchhiked 12,000 miles from Malaya through India, Afghanistan, Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy, Switzerland and France to join the British army because he wanted "to see the world...
Britain's intelligence agencies have long been regarded as the world's best. Despite slip-ups in World War II-as when a German agent served as valet to the British Ambassador to Turkey, and the distressing affair in The Netherlands when, for 20 months, the Nazis fed faked radio messages to London and captured 54 British agents-the British scored coups that helped make good the boast that Allied intelligence had won "the underground war" as well as the fighting...