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Word: cretans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drift in a waving motion around the room." Homosexuals and other biological misfits, such as hens that cannot lay eggs, are treated to euthanasia. (The same goes for those who violate "custom" and are repudiated by their class.) Otherwise, all violence, even impoliteness, is tabu-though occasionally New Cretan males are allowed to let off steam by pummeling each other with sticks or donning colored shorts and playing football to the music of a song called 0 Land of Our Mother, the Footballers' Queen. New Crete has a large class of bureaucrats known as "recorders." Their chief function...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Perils of Utopia | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

Dissolution of Parliament and new elections to secure a genuinely contrist "government of arbitration" spell the only way out of Greece's state of disunion, according to Emmanuel Tsouderos, leader of the Democratic Progressive Party and prime minister during the crucial Cretan stand in 1941. Tsouderos visited the University yesterday as a guest of Raphael Domes '19, professor of Philosophy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Greek Anti-Royalist Leader Decries Rightist Grip on Sophoulis Regime | 11/20/1947 | See Source »

Shooting for then seventh and eighth wins of the season the Crimson rifle squad will the postal matches today against Vermont and Cretan colleges an the basement range in the Indoor Athletic Building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sharpshooters Hit Firing Line Today in Two Postal Matches | 2/14/1947 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gods and Men | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

...would like to point out most emphatically that this operation has been carried out without help of Cretans or Cretan Partisans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: MEN AT WAR: Snatch | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

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