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...their characteristic walks, and watching an old newsreel of Hitler as a model for some of the movements of the Chief Blue Meanie. Edelmann's out right inventions came from everywhere -including the unconscious. He thinks he may have got the idea of the shark-stomached Snapping Turtle Turks because of a Turk he knew who once forced an indigestible Turkish meal on him. He considers the Flying Glove an apt symbol of evil, since "gloves are worn by criminals and therefore stand for action in a secret, malevolent way." He feels that his inclusion of the mechanical soccer...
...last blues number, two hours later, Ivers joined them. The substitute drummer "Turk" had by now jelled into Chaka's style and was wielding great flourishes of beats expertly, Ivers going into his characteristic end-of-a-phrase gesture of jerking open his left arm as if on reflex, Gilbert Moses playing sweet and sharp riffs--the blues was thriving and one wondered a little about the need for "new rock...
...outnumbered by the 480,000 Cypriots of Greek origin, unless he wants to face renewed invasion threats from Turkey without his Greek army support and most of the Greek officers who commanded his guard. There was, in fact, already talk in Nicosia of a new reconciliation program to allay Turk Cypriot fears...
...trip to Cambridge, what Harvard Student's stroll to the post office, is complete without pause at that 1967 Xanadu, the Brattle theatre. A grenadine and soda at the Blue Parrot, a bourbon and branch water at the Casa-blanca, and then a Singapore Sling at the Grand Turk. A Union Jack jumbo necktie at Truc and then, sniffing the honey scent of the beeswax candles on the way upstairs, one sits down, coked to the gills but dressed to the teeth, at a Bogie flick to experience the greatest pleasure in the dome: hissing Sidney Greenstreet. That's life...
...baseball is here, spring can't be far behind. It can't come too soon for Houston Pitcher Turk Farrell: last week he complained that the saliva on his spitball was freezing up. Then there was Mickey Mantle, who wore gloves to bat-and Whitey Ford, who was desolate when the umpire took away the hot-water bottle he was using to keep his pitching fingers warm...