Word: friendship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...playing fields of Athens last week, in the Mediterranean Friendship Cup series, the Turkish soccer team beat the Greeks. A Greek fan, Zafiris Tilimachis, 38, climbed to the Acropolis at sundown and jumped to his death from a rock. He left a note saying he could not bear his country's shame...
Italy kept the Friendship...
...64th birthday (see cut). When they got down to more serious talk, the two Presidents agreed to begin negotiating a treaty to stimulate foreign private investment and U.S. technical assistance for Brazil. In flowery Portuguese, Dutra assured a joint session of Congress of Brazil's enduring friendship. When the Presidents parted, Eurico Dutra handed out his bread & butter gifts: for President Truman, a silver cigarette case, and for Bess Truman, a handful of Brazilian semiprecious stones...
...became-perhaps inevitably-the target of widespread and vicious attacks. His enemies were many: disgruntled officers, liberals, professional politicians (who resented his refusal to take part in the Truman campaign), the Communists, gossip columnists. Both Drew Pearson and Walter Winchell (who raged during the Palestine dispute because Forrestal advocated friendship with the Arabs to protect U.S. Middle East oil supplies) sniped at him mercilessly...
...divided, and their politics so full of Marxism, passions and rancors," he said, "that it is natural for us to look toward America. The sea is no longer a barrier but a road to be traveled over ... In foreign politics . . . what counts [is] mutual understanding . . . and clean friendship on all sides, and so I will say, in the words of the song: 'He who does not feel this way should not ask us for love...