Word: donkeyback
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chuck and George decide to take it on the lam from lamaland. On a brilliantly starlit night, the technicians descend by donkeyback to the foot of the high Himalayas. "Wonder if the computer's finished its run," muses George. "It was due about now." Both men gaze upward and continue to do so, for "overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going...
...Athens crowds gathered all week long outside Makarios' hotel to stare and cheer. Old men on donkeyback, women on foot came from distant villages to offer him flowers and prayers. Makarios lunched with Greece's King Paul. Premier Constantine Karamanlis, who had not met him at the airport in deference to Turkey's protests, called on him in his suite. Among other visitors: his sister and the sister of EOKA Leader Dighenis, who live together in Athens. Watching the scenes of adulation, observers conceded that Archbishop Makarios right now could overturn the Karamanlis government itself...
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