Word: turkeys
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...Bicentennial observance, TIME asked leaders of nations round the world to address the American people through the pages of TIME on how they view the U.S. and what they hope-and expect-from the nation in the years ahead. This message from Premier Süleyman Demirel of Turkey is the eighth in the series...
...reassessment of what was achieved through her association and friendship with the U.S. in several periods of her more recent history. As we Turks turn in retrospect to the long history of our relations with the U.S., we remember that in the years following World War I, when Turkey struggled to create a national and democratic state on the ruins of a defeated empire, Turks looked at America as the only Western country true to its ideals and respectful of human rights. A later political association between Turkey and America began with the Truman Doctrine in 1947, an imaginative...
Although there exists no problem or dispute in the bilateral field that should affect the traditionally friendly relations between Turkey and the U.S., these have been seriously disturbed in recent years by a decision to clamp an arms embargo on Turkey for reasons totally irrelevant to them. This has created, not only in Turkey but in all countries that are friends and allies of the U.S., doubts as to the reliability of American commitments. It would seem to us that the restoration of mutual confidence, which has prevailed for so long in the relations of the two countries...
...spent the past six years in New York and Los Angeles looking for acting jobs and trying to write. In addition to working the Walter Reade theater, he sold a few scripts and landed his only lead role (along with Da Fonz, Henry Winkler) in the 1974 low-budget turkey The Lords of Flatbush...
Longest Pass in Harvard-Yale game: 27 rows. In 1924, in the thick of Prohibition, Yale student Wally Lipshitz started the alcoholic bucket brigade which eventually saw a half-gallon of Wild Turkey inhaled in 17 minutes...