Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military experts and materiel to beef up her army of over 100,000 men. By so doing, the United States would take up where Britain left off--aiding the present Greek government to root out and destroy the EAM forces in the north and to supply the Greek and Turkish governments with the economic and military wherewithal to stem the dynamic onrush of the Soviet Union towards the Dardanelles...
...help, last week, the Australian eleven held the British to a draw. The Australians had already won two and tied one, so (though there was a fifth match to play) the English had no chance of coming out even. London's sensitive press complained about Australia's Turkish-bath weather, "fit only for Nubian slaves...
Yousuf Karsh is a lively, bald-pated little man with a mission: to photograph the faces of the great men of his time. That became his ambition after he came to Canada from Turkish Armenia at 15 and went to work in his uncle's photographic studio in Sherbrooke, Que. Eventually Yousuf Karsh set up his own studio in Ottawa and before long his dramatic, three-dimensional portraits had made him Ottawa's top photographer. Then, on Dec. 30, 1941, Winston Churchill came to town...
...Majesty, Abdullah Ibn Hussein, British-crowned monarch of Trans-Jordan, his son, Emir Naif, and a suite of 16 ministers and notables, had traveled some 900 miles (via Turkish presidential yacht and train) to discuss the dream of an all-Moslem Orient. This would include Turkey, from which the Arabs broke away during World War I. One possible purpose: to serve as a road block to Soviet expansion in the Middle East...
...seemed to have the opposite objection: "One Worlders Stress U.S. as a Global Santa," said the Tribune; it also called the participants "lickspittle members." * U.S.-educated Jan Masaryk spoke the word peace in several tongues: paix (French), paz (Spanish), pace (Italian), bćke (Hungarian), vrede (Dutch), baris (Turkish), mir (Czech) and ping (Chinese). † A misquotation from Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address. Lincoln, less conscious than Byrnes of "power," said: "With firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right...