Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cyprus has been ruled in turn by Rome, Byzantium, Richard the Lion-Hearted, the French Lusignans, Venice, Ottoman Turkey and Britain. Though they have lived side by side since 1571, the island's Greek majority and Turkish minority have never blended, and when the Greek Cypriots in 1955 took the fateful decision to impose union with Greece by violence, it was perhaps inevitable that the Turkish Cypriots in turn would defend their position by the same means...
Behind the Screams. The public outcries of protest against the plan from both Greece and Turkey did not match the private qualifications of those officials who realize that intransigence on both sides has got out of hand. While Greeks protested that there was no promise of future "self-determination," the Greek government was ready to go along with any compromise acceptable to Greek Orthodox Archbishop Makarios, leader of the enosis movement (the British were expected to allow the exiled Makarios to return to Cyprus). Although the Turks started riots on the grounds that the plan failed to provide for "partition...
Insultan. In Izmir, Turkey, Hassan Huseyin Coshtu, released from prison, hurried back to court and publicly declared his passionate love for the lady judge who had sentenced him, said he "couldn't think of anything else for three years," was promptly jugged again for "outraging a magistrate during performance of her functions...
...flocked last week into the auditorium of Nashville's massive War Memorial Building, where the state house of representatives was meeting while the capitol underwent repairs. The show: Tennessee's first impeachment proceeding in 42 years. The accused: Hamilton County's rowdy, Negro-baiting Judge Raulston ("Turkey Neck") Schoolfield...
...first four months of the year, the industry is down a crushing 33%-and there are few signs of the traditional spring upsurge. Across the nation, automen frantically poured on the oldfashioned, hand-pumping hard sell, hurled themselves into door-to-door sales drives and marathon "cold turkey'' telephone campaigns. Chicago salesmen sported handkerchiefs hopefully-but falsely -embroidered "Business Is Good." In St. Louis, Milwaukee, Dallas, Atlanta. "You Auto Buy Now" campaigns assaulted the public pocketbook. With an assist from Chevy Salesman Power, New York dealers kicked off their campaign with Ringling Bros. circus acts at a monster...