Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tentative conclusion: the Russians had decided to move their "volunteers" at least into Syria and possibly into Egypt, to stake out the Red army's first foothold in the Middle East. U.S. intelligence added solid evidence that complete Red air force units had already flown over Turkey and taken up positions on three airfields in Syria...
...into the woods to look for meat, and an acorn fell upon her poor head, so she cried: "The sky is falling down!" She told Hen-len who told Cock-lock, who told Duck-luck, who told Drake-lake, who told Goose-loose, who told Gander-lander, who told Turkey-lurkey. And on their way to tell the King, they met Fox-lox, who offered to take them to the Palace. Instead, he ate them all up. Moral: Use Your Head, Else a Fox May Pluck Your Feathers...
There, so said one of his instructors, Ike was "a not uncommon type." He moved through four years from 57th out of 212 to 61st out of 164, accumulating demerits for such offenses as "using profanity at supper" and "violation of orders with reference to dancing," e.g., doing the turkey trot. On the football field, Ike became a star halfback who once downed Jim Thorpe ("We really stopped him-hard") and might have made All-America had he not wrenched his knee...
When Major General Claire Chennault, wartime commander of World War II's famed Flying Tigers, decided to start an airline in the Far East in 1946, most professionals gave him about as much chance of survival as a turkey in a typhoon. He had only a few war-weary transports, a handful of his old U.S. fighter pilots and a $1,000,000 loan (at 10% interest) from the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, which wanted to fly food and medicine into China. But last week, as Chennault's Civil Air Transport got ready to celebrate...
...record was independent liberal and not always in line with the G.O.P.'s newly won majority in the 80th Congress. He voted against the Mundt-Nixon anti-subversive bill and against funds for the House Committee on Un-American Activities. He also voted for aid to Greece and Turkey in their fight against Communism, for the establishment of the Voice of America and for an unsuccessful bill to outlaw state poll taxes. "We thank God for Javits," exulted a Democratic leader, "because in a tight spot we can almost always count on him for another vote." But some Republican...