Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...With a minimum of good will and faith our problems with Turkey with regard to Cyprus can be solved" Greece's minister of defense said last night in a speech at the Harvard Club of Boston...
Averoff said that though hopes for improved relations with Turkey have been ruined in the past, by avoiding provocations while "extending a hand of friendship," Greece's desire for peace with its eastern neighbor can be realized...
Averoff said that Turkey's current claims on certain disputed oil-rich islands in the Aegean Sea would not be accepted by Greece...
Outside, the stuffed figure of a Minnesota state trooper hangs in effigy, buffeted by the blowing snow. Near by, a white turkey, caricaturing Minnesota Senator Wendell Anderson, twists slowly in the wind. Inside the red brick town hall in Lowry, a hamlet of 257 in west-central Minnesota, angry farmers talk bitterly about Governor Rudy Perpich and his invading "redcoats" and vow never to give up the fight. Declares one white-haired farm wife: 'They're building this line in enemy territory...
...Baskin. Byrd, who played a mighty fine, foot-stomping hillbilly fiddle, asked Baskin what he should do next. Said the Grand Dragon: "Take that fiddle and use it." In 1946 he ran for the state legislature and fiddled his way into office. Playing such tunes as Turkey in the Straw and Old Joe Clark, he drew campaign crowds and attention in town after town, beat out twelve other Democratic primary candidates, and went on to win the election...