Word: customs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Turkish Custom. Early the following morning, while McCuistion was still being held incommunicado, Turkish police picked up U.S. Air Force Sergeant Giacomo Recevuto, of Brooklyn. And that afternoon Izmir Police Chief Nevzat Emrealp informed NATO authorities that he wanted to have "a little talk" about currency black-marketing with two other U.S. sergeants, James D. King of Ruth, Miss, and Joseph Proietti of Mt. Kisco, N.Y. Emrealp did not mention that his men had already extracted from the Turkish manager of the NATO noncoms' club in Izmir a confession implicating King-a confession subsequently repudiated by the club manager...
...general, we Lakota (Sioux) are learning to conform to the customs of our white brothers and sisters. There is one custom that we do not intend to conform to-bathing beauty contests. Even the poorest of our Lakota women manage to cover their nakedness. They do not make public display of their bare hide or their bathing habits...
...canals, bought 60 new garbage trucks for Bangkok, ordered pedicabs off the street. When a rash of fires broke out in the business district last winter. Sarit raced to the scene one night, ordered four Chinese merchants shot on the spot-a brutal but effective reminder that the annual custom of burning down shops to collect insurance for the Chinese New Year celebration was thenceforth taboo. Fortnight ago. prowling La Guardia-style about the streets of Bangkok in his chauffeur-driven car, Sarit drew up behind an automobile in which a woman sat eating fruit and throwing the peels...
...housing family. To rid the prefab of the boxy, cheap look and boring sameness that once plagued it, he has hired top architects to give his houses style, turns out four basic models in 600 different variations ranging from a three-bedroom $7.900 home to a $150,000 custom-built one. Price also has another valuable asset: his brother George, National's president and a hardselling salesman who travels four business days out of five...
...sizzling heat wave, the photographers were out on the bathing-suit beat, and while the average British daily carried enough cheesecake for a Berlin banquet, editions exported to Ireland featured proper young women in street clothes. There was no alternative: Roman Catholic Ireland's law and custom have long forced Irish newspapers to adopt one of the most rigorous self-censorships of any free press in the world...