Word: aegean
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...burning Aegean sun climbed toward high noon, fishermen from Rhodes eyed the last of the season's bikini-clad tourists from Germany and Sweden stretching languidly on the is land's white sands. Inside Rhodes's ancient, icon-laden cathedral, where the air was dusky with incense, a choir chanted the solemn hymns of the Byzantine Divine Liturgy, concelebrated by 14 bishops. Thus began the third ma jor conference of the world's 14 Ortho dox churches to take place in the past four years...
...World War I, of course, that Brooke found completion in every sense, and he seemingly anticipated his fate years ahead of time. It was not a heroic death. The war poet, as he is remembered, was a victim of blood poisoning aboard a ship in the Aegean. His grave on the island of Skyros attracts almost as many tourists as Shelley's grave in the English Protestant Cemetery in Rome. In Brooke's memory, Grantchester's clock for many years was stopped at ten to three...
After a three-hour Cabinet meeting, the Turkish government issued a five-point communique: 1) Greek Cypriot military activities will be subject to reconnaissance flights by the Turkish air force, 2) the Turkish armed forces are being held in a state of alert, 3) on the Aegean seacoast and on the Turkish-Greek frontier in Thrace, the Turks are prepared to meet all attacks, 4) Turkey is providing its NATO allies with all necessary information about its military activities, and 5) measures are being taken to put the entire country, including the civilian population, in a state of readiness...
...cushions and asked him to explain their country to them because it was so "baffling." In Jordan, Knowles was lionized by King Hussein, and titillated by the prospect that he might lend a hand in writing the royal autobiography (a Briton got the job). Knowles pushed on to the Aegean islands. Everywhere, simple peasants were eager to welcome the camera-bearing tourist...
...Madison Ave. at 69th. Meigs' paintings make an alluring invitation to Greece where he has lived the past two years. He often plays sea green against sky blue, counterpoints the delicate sheen of acrylic polymer with the coarseness of his mixed me dia to create spatial ambiguities in Aegean landscapes and seascapes. Through...