Word: averoff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Larousse relented. Bowled over by the Attic charms of a new Greek cultural attaché in Paris, the publishers announced that grec in their forthcoming centenary edition would be defined solely as an inhabitant of Greece or that which pertains to Greece. "In these matters," said Attaché George Averoff, "official notes are no use. I got to know Larousse's publisher. I got to know his wife. We had dinner-and the matter was fixed...