Word: westly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chairmen, Edward F. Burke '50, Student Council President, and Robert F. Fuller '50, N.S.A. Chairman; Secretary, Francis L. Church '50, President of the Free Enterprise Society; Treasurer, Charles J. West '50, President of the Harvard Democratic Club...
...John West replaced Paul Shafer as offensive fullback, running with Bill Henry and Hal Moffie. Cal Lowenstein and Chuck Roche alternated at tallback. In the line, converted end Al Wilson switched with Duke Sedgwick at right tackle, but the rest of the offensive line was almost back at full strength, with both Howie Houston and John Coan running...
State of Siege. One night, in a village restaurant between the Black Sea and Ankara, my dinner was interrupted by a group of grizzled oldsters drinking raki (grape brandy). One called across the smoky room: "When are you Americans going to stop the Russians?" No country in the West so deeply hates and fears the Russians. Turkey lives in a state of siege. Russian propagandists have been claiming Turkey's eastern provinces for the Soviet motherland. Radio Sofia purrs the happy lot of Bulgaria's Turkish minority; Radio Azerbaijan calls on all Kurds, including Turkey...
Cement pillboxes dot the rolling plains of Thrace; piles of stone lie by the roadsides for emergency roadblocks. From the border of Bulgaria in the west to Ararat in the east, Turkish riflemen stand guard. Almost half a million men are in the armed forces-a staggering burden for a poor country of 19 million people. Defense takes 40% of Turkey's budget...
...Tobacco Tycoon James Buchanan Duke (Bull Durham, Duke's Mixture, Lucky Strikes) stood upon a hill three miles west of Durham, N.C. and silently gazed out over the wooded acres about him. Finally he turned to his companion and said: "This is the place...