Word: cretan
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...only six inches high, and at first glance her flounced skirt, wasp waist, bare breasts and triple crown looked comically ahead of the fashion. She had roamed the Mediterranean with Cretan pirates. She was reportedly worshiped from Asia Minor to Spain as the eternally virgin mother of all things, the new moon, full moon and old moon, whose baby boy (the sun) went down to death each year. All life was supposed to flow from her inexhaustible breasts...
...would like to point out most emphatically that this operation has been carried out without help of Cretans or Cretan Partisans...
...army in defeat. Its every move was forced upon it, and each move at one point weakened it at some other point. Everywhere Germany was losing: at home, from the mightiest air assault in history; in Russia; in southern Europe. It was there, from Sicily and Italy to their Cretan outpost, that the real nature of the Germans' plight was most apparent...
Manolis Batouvas is about 50 years old. He is thin almost to the point of emaciation, but his body is hard, and his jet-black eyes, set in a hawklike, bronzed face, burn with the fierceness that is characteristic of all the Cretan guerrillas. Batouvas cannot be more than 5 ft. 6, and he walks like a spraddled duck. His khaki shorts are too big for him, flapping in the mountain winds, and his khaki shirt emerges at several places from his pants. He is nobody's ideal of a hero. In fact, before the Germans invaded Crete, Batouvas...
...seaplane carried him to Crete. Nazi soldiers, dropping out of the sky, drove him on again. He and his party fled once more; guided over the mountains by Capitan ("The Goat") Volanis, a fierce little Cretan guerrila. At the seacoast, he embarked on a British destroyer. From Cairo via Capetown he reached London, set up his Government-in-Exile...