Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Save a manna-like penalty shot tally by Michael Smith with a little less than a minute left in the match, turkey and stuffing was all the Crimson got all afternoon. That shot, granted because of a UConn tripping infraction in the penalty area, made the score 5-1 and wiped at least a little of the mud off the collective face of the Harvard squad...
...fill up again in the evenings. Some city dwellers looked far trimmer than usual, simply because they no longer packed pistols inside their coats or waistbands. Ankara's English-language Turkish Daily News, reflecting the prevailing mood, announced in a banner headline: LIFE BACK TO NORMAL THROUGHOUT TURKEY...
...National Security Council took the oath of office, they chose not to swear on the Koran or any other holy book. Instead, to underscore the secular nature of the Turkish state, they swore on their honor and invoked the name of Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey...
...most accounts, at least in the current honeymoon period, they could not have done better than to rally around General Evren, who is described by a Western military expert in Turkey as "a father figure to his soldiers, an honest man with strong common sense." A native Anatolian, he is a stickler for rank and tradition; newsmen thought it was probably symbolic that they were carefully instructed to wear jackets and ties to his press conference last week. During the search for a new President over the past five months, Evren was suggested as a candidate but he turned down...
...expected, Evren announced that his government would honor Turkey's commitments to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The pledge was welcomed by Western strategists because Turkey, with the largest standing army in Europe, is the vital defender of NATO'S southeastern flank and shares a 350-mile border with the Soviet Union. Thus the U.S. and its Western European allies tended to be sympathetic to, if somewhat saddened by, the generals' reasons for seizing power. As Sir Ian Gilmour, Britain's Deputy Foreign Secretary, put it, "No one likes army coups. But when you have...