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Word: turkeys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...went up and down at the touch of a button. There may never be another presidential moment like the Monday night in Peking when Richard Nixon and Premier Chou En-lai toasted each other in the Great Hall and the People's Liberation Army Band No. 1 played Turkey in the Straw and Home on the Range. Jerry Ford added his chapter in Vladivostok, spending the night with Leonid Brezhnev to conclude details of a nuclear-arms-limitation agreement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Into the Wild Blue Yonder | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

...said Burt, chortling merrily and adding that he now had the distinction of having been canceled at one time or another by all three of the TV networks. "I thought?and it was very calculating?that I could get on television and say, 'Hey, my last picture was a turkey,' and people would find it funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Ole Burt; Cool-Eyed Clint | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

...then perhaps Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner is a close second. The latest Rolling Stone contains its annual reader's poll--not surprisingly, Fleetwood Mac comes out on top--"Rumours" still goes platinum again every month. But perhaps the most interesting precious metals are passed out in the Platinum Turkey Awards, in the "What Ever Happened to Ego Death" Category, which cites, among others, Rod Stewart, Ken Russell, Reggie Jackson, and Lillian Hellmann...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trees Died for These Sins | 1/6/1978 | See Source »

About ten or 15 students from her high school come to school in the United States each year. Atinc, a government concentrator, has set familiar goals for herself. After graduation, she hopes to go to graduate school in America, and then return to Turkey...

Author: By Susan K. Mccune, | Title: Tamar Atinc: | 1/5/1978 | See Source »

Atinc's role as a basketball player is definitely changing. Unlike her playing days in Turkey, the game now no longer rests solely on her performance. Kleinfelder splits the responsibility on the floor among the five players, so that everyone contributes, and Tamar is no longer a one-woman offense...

Author: By Susan K. Mccune, | Title: Tamar Atinc: | 1/5/1978 | See Source »

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