Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when the U.S.S. Missouri called at Istanbul, U.S. sailors found it difficult to pay for anything, including prostitutes. The Russians, after 13 wars with Turkey in 300 years, were again menacing the Bosporus and Dardanelles, and the Turks gave the Americans a welcome that lasted for two decades. The U.S. reciprocated with more than $5 billion in military and economic aid. Symbolic of the "very, very special relationship," as a U.S. diplomat described it, was the fact that Turkey sent a tough, all-volunteer brigade of 2,500 troops to Korea...
...root of the rising anti-Americanism, reports TIME Correspondent Dan Coggin, is the fact that the proud and xenophobic Turks resent any sign of dependence on the U.S. "Atatürk's death in 1938 left Turkey in a limbo of incomplete Westernization," writes Coggin. "City-bred granddaughters of veiled harem favorites practice law and medicine in Ankara and Istanbul today. But in the Moslem countryside and small towns, where 80% of Turkey's 35 million people live, little has changed from centuries...
...listen to the new salary demands of the teachers. For the first time in years, a solid phalanx of concerned taxpayers from town and farm showed up to listen and to judge. Another thing happened about the same time. They showed the premiere of a movie, Cold Turkey, which was filmed in that tiny village, so long deserted by its young people and criticized by its residents, who have felt passed over by modern society. One shot showed the sun rising on the clear and uncrowded prairie, a deep and comforting green. Those people in that little theater in Greenfield...
...pair of swans to then-President Arthur da Costa e Silva of Brazil. That is about the only practical use left for the beautiful bird. Once it was considered a great delicacy at the royal table, but, said the Lord Chancellor, it has been "superseded by the alien turkey...
...caterers move in and take over her party; the neighbors complain to her about the coat rack that her husband has left in the hall of their Central Park West apartment; Jonathan derides her in front of the children; and when she cooks a special stuffing for the Thanksgiving turkey (as Jonathan has demanded), one of the girls spits it out. Jonathan explodes...