Word: drachma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crashing through a window. I knew it was going to be a brawl, and a classic one at that. It was just the way I had always envisioned it. In Athens last summer I had seen American sailors tear apart a clip joint in retaliation for a few hundred drachma in change that they never happened to get back from the bartender. But here, in Ithaca, New York, people were brawling just for the pure joi? de sport...
...infested with local and international nouveaux riches, who don't know why, when or how to smash dishes and who, as you state, measure merrymaking's "success by the depth of the debris." Zorba would have smashed only one dish or glass-but with style. Spending no drachma or "buck" either...
...Reform. The regime has even accomplished some things. Panic buying of gold, which threatened the drachma, was stemmed by the central bank early in the year. Since then, the economy has expanded nicely. Gross national product will be up 8% for 1966, industrial production is up 15% , and after nearly two years of inflation brought on by Papandreou's free-spending policies, prices have stabilized. Governing with a precarious majority of 152 Deputies (out of a 300-man Parliament), in which the balance of power is held by 40-odd Deputies weaned away from Papandreou's once-dominant...
...Paris money market--the scene of his greatest triumph--would become his permanent resting place. His spirit would pass from that earthly shell through the veins of the monetary system to all corners of the earth. His very being would animate each franc, each dollar, each ruble, rupee, and drachma. And, long after his death, statesmen would journey to inspect the great French general, the leader of men who proved far more valuable dead than alive...
...agreed to leave Greece and retire to an estate in Austria in return for a large pension from the government. Other papers quickly joined in to embroider the indelicate suggestion. It was said Frederika had demanded $150,000, but Papandreou had insisted on $100,000 and not a drachma more. Typically, too, there was no way to get official confirmation-or denial-of anything about the affair...