Word: turks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same day that Generalissimo Joseph Stalin talked peace to the world, the Soviet Government talked tough to Turkey. After having pondered for a month, the Kremlin rejected the Turkish Government's rejection (TIME, Sept. 2) of Russia's demands for joint Soviet-Turk defense of the Dardanelles (implied was a Russian base on Gallipoli). Russia also...
...baked walls and domes had dominated the ages. Doomed to repeated conquest, it had heard the clatter of Egyptian cavalry, the rattle of Persian scythe-wheeled chariots, had known Assyrian and Babylonian, the Macedonian phalanx and the Roman legion, Seleucid and Seljuk, Crusader, Saracen and Ottoman Turk. One conqueror supplanted the other, or declined to impotent passivity. But Jerusalem still remained, permanent in the perspective of history, as the city sometimes appears in a sudden lifting of the haze, crowning Zion...
Trombonist Turk Murphy, who uses an empty gallon paint can for a mute, used to sit in with Bunk Johnson. Banjoist Henry Mordecai once played guitar, caught the jazz fever and bought three riverboat banjos so he could switch from one to another when his ferocious strumming broke the strings. Drummer Bill Dart has fingers like crowbars, drums almost exclusively on wood blocks and a washboard. Pianist Wally Rose, a man with a solid beat, also plays Bach and Chopin...
This week a minor recording outfit, West Coast Recordings, released four Lu Watters records, planned to turn out 32 more. They included classics like Canal Street Blues, Creole Belles and Chattanooga Stomp, and originals like Turk Murphy's Trombone Rag and Lu's Antigua Blues, named after the ship on which Lu did Navy duty. Watters' boys have an impressive library of 200 oldtime tunes-all "in their heads...
...Polo Shirts. Now the carpets in Prince Louis's Casino were threadbare. Only two gambling rooms were open, for chance's devotees had shrunk to a handful of shabby Frenchmen and Spaniards, a Greek, a Turk. Some of the players-oh, calamity-wore polo shirts. One wrinkled woman, 92, still wagered 50-franc chips as she had done daily for a quarter century. Others jotted down numbers in notebooks. These were the survivors...