Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...during the 13 days of the Cuban Missile Crisis recall the Soviets' singling out Harvard in official propaganda. Most recollect a campus just as confused and frightened as the rest of the country by the blur of cryptic news reports: U.S. blockade, 80 million potential American victims, rockets in Turkey, the threat to Berlin...
Your account is unfair to the Turkish people who have lived in peace with the Armenians since the 13th century. During World War I, when Turkey was struggling for its very existence, Armenians openly sided with Russia and became a threat to eastern Turkey. An ill-conceived attempt to secure the Russian front by deporting the Armenian population from the border provinces to the south resulted in many deaths. It was a desperate, chaotic time, when many Turks also starved and atrocities were committed by both sides. Labeling a wartime tragedy with terms such as genocide and holocaust will...
...must be remembered that Turkey was torn asunder by the collapse of the Ottoman Empire prior to and during World War I. The Armenians, supported by the Russians, resisted the Constantinople government and went so far as to displace other ethnic groups from the traditional Armenian homelands, murdering indiscriminately. Nobody can deny that the results of Talaat Pasha's orders were tragic. However, the events that occurred more than 60 years ago, under the aegis of the Ottomans, should not be avenged today. Turkey has long since put behind her the evils of her empire. Terrorist acts will...
...extremists' attack in the Ankara airport, their first assault on Turkish soil since beginning their crusade, deeply shook the government. Four members of Turkey's five-man junta attended the solemn state funeral for three policemen and the airport manager who had been slaughtered in the action...
...citizens and city council were not convinced. "An oversized, beribboned Christmas package," said Pietro Belluschi, 83, a Portland resident who is one of the country's most respected architects. Belluschi, however, later relented and said he was getting used to it. Other objectors persisted, calling the building "a turkey" and "a giant jukebox." Graves was asked to simplify his design. He considered this a terrible setback and lobbied hard and semisuccessfully to get his garlands back. The Metropolitan Arts Commission held a competition for the Portlandia sculpture, to be paid for through the city's public art program...