Word: turkishly
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...International Committee should also consider banning Kenya for discrimination against resident Asians, the U.K. for discrimination against those same Asians, the Arab States for discrimination against the Israelis, Nigeria for discrimination against the Ibos, France for discrimination against the British, the Greek Cypriots for discrimination against the Turkish Cypriots and vice-versa, a majority of the nations sitting in the U.N. for discrimination against China, and the U.S. for discrimination against Ian Smith...
...terms of the fantasy require that five funny brigadiers-two Americans, two British, one French-have been captured by the Italians in a Tunisian Turkish bath. They are incarcerated in a luxurious villa, where the commandant is a former hotel manager and the guards behave like well-trained batmen. The setup is anything but escape-proof, but there they stay, having a lovely war, unable to agree on a plan because all have identical rank. Private Frigg, escape artist extraordinary, is summoned to spring the goldbricking generals by getting himself captured, and is given a spurious spot promotion that will...
...handsome; he could swim the Hellespont, even with a game leg; he had affairs with men as well as women including, some believe, his half sister. He was also a political rebel. When he died at 34 in Missolonghi, Greece, he was planning and financing a revolt against the Turkish oppressors...
...recognize him, not the junta-appointed regent, as Greece's legitimate head of state. But at week's end Tur key-Greece's traditional enemy-became the first important nation to extend official recognition to the junta. Some other countries are now likely to follow the Turkish example...
...faced a shattering situation. In its months in power, the junta had carefully placed junior officers loyal to it on all general staffs, just in case their commanding officers should prove too royalist. Now a young major named Nicholas Petanis had raced from a base on the Greco-Turkish border to Kavalla and brought a column of tanks with him. He and other junior officers loyal to the junta arrested the three generals who were the King's chief supporters. That ended Constantine's coup. The major gave the King a choice: return to Athens or flee...