Word: turkishly
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...Chichester disappeared. Cyprus' independence party noticeably warmed. When 1,600 Greek and Turkish soldiers debarked from their homelands to stand guard duty over the infant republic alongside Cyprus' own future army, one Turkish centenarian fell on a startled Turkish infantryman's neck, blubbered that he had not set eyes on a Turkish uniform since the last Ottoman garrison sailed away in 1878. For Greek Cypriots, the day was made when a plane from Athens landed 21 EOKA terrorists-freedom fighters to the Cypriots-whom the British had exiled 17 months...
...officials found a Liberian marathoner, stop watch in hand, patiently plodding mile after mile. "It's quiet now," he explained, "and cool." In their practice sessions, tough Pakistanis played the American schoolgirl sport of field hockey with startling violence, Hungarians struck sparks with their shining sabers, bull-necked Turkish and Iranian wrestlers charged and grunted like affronted rhinos...
Baltimore-born Spinster Henrietta Szold, at 49, was heartbroken because a romance with a rabbinical scholar had come to an end. As balm, her mother suggested a trip to Gilead. What Zionist Szold saw in Palestine under Turkish rule in 1909 made her personal troubles seem trivial. In Jerusalem's Old City, she saw a child's trachoma-dimmed eyes covered with flies, and when she asked the mother why the flies were not brushed away, she was told: "They will only return...
...audience. There is usually some wild variation of the news, and a routine remark at a presidential press conference might come out as a caricature of the sort of bromide Sahl thinks the Administration is forever administering: ''The President says the Russians are terrified of the Turkish cavalry...
...TURKISH OIL FIND near Adana by Socony Mobil yielded biggest flow (240 bbl. a day), best quality oil yet found in Turkey. The gusher rouses hopes that oilmen have struck edge of vast reservoir whose oil might end a major import drain on Turkish economy...