Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reliable knowledge of tropical fish, the politics and personalities of Burma, Turkish newspapers and journalists, British children's games and books, "most Moslem customs," witchcraft in the U.S., water lilies and other aquatic plants, the Democratic National Convention of 1912 ("I was there"), labor unions in Eastern Pennsylvania, the French horn, the U.S. textile industry and its ramifications, commercial fishing, religious orders of the Episcopal Church, French schools, Russian art, Australian slang, Washington, D.C. bureaucracy ("as distinct from political & diplomatic Washington"), dairy farm terminology, Sauk Centre, Minn., water polo, Austrian dialects, the game of Go, harness racing...
...Senators had ransacked their souls, and the day was at hand. The opposition to the Greek-Turkish loan had shaken down into the extreme Left (worried about the U.S. moral position) and the extreme Right (worried about the U.S. purse). For the fainthearted, Secretary of State George Marshall cabled from Moscow that the program had his full support...
...Said one Turkish editor: "We know that Truman and Vandenberg are battling for us and humanity. . . . But we must achieve democracy in our own way." Said a businessman: "Your dollars won't make us knuckle down any more than Russian threats." An aging Turkish intellectual summed up the situation confronting the U.S.'s new foreign policy: "It is difficult to give gracefully, and even more difficult to receive gracefully...
Citing Turkey's favorable economic condition in relation to other European countries, the HLU stated flatly that "the loan is to bolster the Turkish army. We are unalterably opposed to setting up buffer armies against the USSR...
...sereon offering matches previous imports in honesty and verve. Cut from four hours to two and a half, "Children of Paradise" still lacks the poignant simplicity of "The Well-digger's Daughter," but makes up for it in a vertical spread of character from shaming beggars to Counts in Turkish baths...