Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Oct. 21--Turkey announced tonight it had accepted an offer from King Saud of Saudi Arabia to mediate the Turkish-Syrian crisis. Syria appeared to be holding back...
...Turkey Accepts Saud's Mediation...
Turkish Ambassador Seyfullah Esin said his government had informed the Saudi Arabian monarch that it was prepared to take part in mediation efforts. Asin heads Turkey's U.N. delegation...
Moving into this taut situation with the touch of a blustering gamesman, Khrushchev put himself in a position to boast that only his timely threats had saved Syria from the terrible Turks. For most Arabs know that the seedy Syrian army constitutes no match for Turkey's 500,000 formidable soldiers. To the aroused Arabs, it seemed all too likely that the Turks were eager to take on the job of policing the Middle East for the Western powers...
...throne at the end of the 19th century. Philip's mother was Princess Alice of Battenberg, a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Young Philip never learned Greek. His father, a lieutenant general, was blamed by clamoring republicans for a disaster in the short (1921-22) war with Turkey, was condemned to permanent exile, and left Greece for Paris, taking 18-month-old Philip with...