Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Above the rushing green waters of the Drina River, a beautiful white stone bridge with eleven vaulting arches provided a meeting place for the lackadaisical citizens of Visegrad. On summer evenings the townsfolk strolled its length, bought melons and cherries from the peasants, sipped thick Turkish coffee. The town elders sat smoking in the middle of the bridge, looked with contentment on the Bosnian mountains ringing their valley, gravely discussed public matters. The young men came to sing and joke, to flirt with passing girls or lean dreaming on the parapet. On such soft nights, a man on the bridge...
...gouged out in Henryk (Quo Vadis) Sienkiewicz's Pan Michael. Later, when the Serbs revolt against the crumbling Ottoman Empire, severed heads are as common on the bridge as melons used to be, but the townsfolk-always approving of good workmanship-remark that the Turkish executioner has "a lighter hand than Mushan the town barber." When the Austrians finally march into Visegrad on the heels of the routed Turks, in 1878, they find a disputatious Moslem named Alihodja on the bridge with his ear nailed to a beam. He had made the mistake of arguing with Turkish guerrillas...
Eight Hours a Day. Darvas studied economics at the University of Budapest, fled Hungary for Turkey in World War II (he still holds Turkish citizenship), methodically trained eight hours a day to become a dancer. He came to the U.S. in 1951, got interested in the market in 1952 when a Toronto nightclub owner paid him off in a mining stock that promptly trebled. (He sold it at that point; it later collapsed.) Darvas trained for the market just as methodically as he had studied his dancing, read some 200 books on the market and the great speculators, spent eight...
Mosque & State. One reason for the current bitterness of Turkish politics is that Republicans fear that Menderes, to stay in power, is undoing the separation of mosque and state decreed by the late great Kemal Ataturk, founder of the Turkish Republic. To win favor in the devoutly Moslem countryside, Menderes has provided government funds for a vast mosque-building program, reintroduced religious instruction in the nation's primary schools, and encouraged the reading of the Koran over the state radio. To emancipated Turks, religious rule recalls the stifling, narrow days of the old Ottoman caliphate...
...months ago Menderes had a brush with death when a Turkish Viscount turboprop carrying him to London crashed with the loss of 15 lives (TIME. March 2). Many devout Turks attributed his escape to divine intervention, and since then the Premier's popularity has taken on a quasi-religious quality. Upon his return to Turkey, camels and sheep were sacrificially slaughtered in his presence; on at least one occasion admirers hailed him as "Evliya [Saint] Menderes...