Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even harsher rebuke to Ford's leadership, the House voted to cut off further military aid to Turkey. There were mixed reasons for the move: the use of U.S. arms in Turkish attacks on Cyprus; irritation with the Turks over the resumption of poppy planting; pressure from a vocal number of Greek-Americans; and congressional unwillingness to blindly follow Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's recommendations. The Senate had taken the same action, then, under heavy White House arm-twisting, agreed to delay the ban for 60 days. Ford had termed any curtailment "a misguided and extremely harmful...
...moment arrives one night when Myron is televiewing Siren of Babylon, a 1948 costume turkey starring Bruce Cabot and Maria Montez. As Myron ad justs his set, the imprisoned Myra shoves him through the screen, and he finds himself back in 1948 on the MGM set where the movie is being shot...
...three daughters, she played a lonely second fiddle to Franz Joseph's imperious mother Sophie. Eventually, the vivacious queen declared a kind of independence, becoming the adored champion of the cause of home rule for Hungary, traveling incessantly: now to England to ride after hounds, now to Turkey to explore Schliemann's diggings at Troy. She even translated Shakespearean plays into modern Greek. Primping and dieting narcissistically, Elisabeth remained an international beauty until she was 60, when she was killed by an Italian anarchist while boarding a steamer on Lake Geneva...
Ford was especially alarmed that the U.S. would lose leverage in the Cyprus crisis if aid to Turkey was halted. He sent staffers to Capitol Hill where they persuaded House-Senate conferees to eliminate the objectionable amendments from the resolution. Now the Senate must decide whether to accept the revised measure...
...they also had misadventures. Mistaken for smugglers in the Spanish countryside one night, they were prodded awake by guards with Sten guns. The mayor of a French village chased them out of his house when they came to call, and they were stoned by anti-Americans in Iran and Turkey...