Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...line of fire. The abbey atop Monte Cassino, which St. Benedict founded in 529, was a cellar drowned in rubble. But Rome escaped whole-except for the Church of San Lorenzo-outside-the-Walls, founded by Emperor Constantine (see cut). The ruins of ancient Greece (made genuine ruins by Turkish shells in 1827) had not been disturbed...
Beer & Free Lunch. Hinky Dink and his lifelong partner, Bathhouse John Coughlin, had set out to rule these rich and raffish stews of the new metropolis. Bathhouse John, once a rubber in a Turkish oath, was the front man. He was a huge, bumbiing. handsome ruffian, full of pomp, speech and warm red blood. Tight-lipped Hinky Dink was the boss. They were elected aldermen; together they controlled the vote, became loved, feared, respected...
Emir Mohamed Al-Raschid II, Detroit-born, self-styled heir to the Turkish throne and direct descendant of the Prophet, took a right royal beating in a Hollywood divorce court. His commoner wife, a onetime Iowa telephone operator (Marcella Whiting), now the Princess Pareshah, won both her divorce, ("He never earned a cent . . . made me serve him breakfast in bed") and the right to raise their 17-month-old daughter as a Methodist. Mohamed II was horrified, claimed that some 200,000,000 Moslems would be, too. "The Princess," he declared, "belongs to all Islam." His wife's attorneys...
...Expressed surprise that Turkey should suspect that Russia's demands would violate Turkish sovereignty...
...Said a Turkish Government source: "Symptoms indicate that something abnormal might happen." Reports from Istanbul declared that 1,000,000 Turkish troops had been alerted and were "ready to fight in five minutes...