Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such American classics as Kentucky Mountain Running Set, Paw Paw Patch, Beaux of Oak Hill. At their final Metropolitan appearance before leaving for this week's engagement in Montreal, they surprised and delighted their audience with a spirited rendition of the Virginia reel to the tune of Turkey in the Straw, then "la-la-laed" through a chorus of Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here and bade farewell with shouts of the word that echoed Manhattan's verdict...
...Cold Turkey. "About the only sure way to stop this stuff is to set your store up in a nudist colony," said a Seattle superman, by now suspicious of just about any housewife who carries a big handbag, wears full skirts or wraps up in a fur coat on a warm day. In many U.S. cities, market cashiers havealso learned to watch for more elaborate devices for sneaking merchandise past the cash register: improbably distended bras (cheese and caviar), hollowed-out books (chops), a bagful of well-used baby diapers (canned goods), the false-bottom market bag, fake laundry packages...
...Brand agreed with them. But the Germans promised a down payment of 100,000 living Jews, and he hoped he could keep negotiations dragging along until the approaching Allied victory closed all accounts. Thus, while the Nazis held his own family hostage, he made a desperate journey to neutral Turkey and the Middle East to get the negotiations started with Allied agents...
Professor George M. A. Hanfmann's current ancient mystery is the fabulous Lydian civilization, whose capital city in Sardis, Turkey, will be excavated during the next three summers. He returned on April 14th from a preliminary survey of the area and will leave again late in May to begin digging. "Sardis is an extremely rich place," says Professor Hanfmann, his "r's" revealing a slight German accent. "There are several big ruins above ground from the Hellenistic and the Roman period, but the palace of Croesus and the Temple of Zeus are buried. We will probably take on some...
...turned out, Fairchild made no turkey callers-or corsets. Hopping into missiles, Fairchild soon found itself expanding its engine as well as its airframe business. The J83 engine soon proved so promising for light jet aircraft that General Dynamics' Canadian subsidiary, Canadair Ltd., chose it as the power plant for the prototype of its new CL-41 trainer, and Lockheed will also use it for its Jet-Star executive transport. Fairchild added half a dozen other lines, from electronic guidance systems for missiles to an aluminum bridge much like a plane wing, in hopes of winning a slice...