Word: drachmae
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...students denounced the economic policies of the junta which had led to the revaluation of the drachma, 30% inflation in basic foodstuffs, and the use of the Greek government's much needed stores of petroleum for the Athens-based American Sixth Fleet...
There is little doubt that popular sentiment against Papadopoulos' regime has risen sharply in recent months. Amid charges of corruption in high places, junta favoritism to business interests, accelerating inflation and the decreasing value of the drachma (which is tied to the dollar), student unrest broke into the open this spring. Last month, exiled former Premier Constantine Caramanlis, 66, issued a bitter broadside from Paris against the regime, calling for its resignation and the return of the King to oversee the restoration of democracy...
...with him long enough and if you steer the conversation that way, he will tell you with great bitterness how the Ministry of Agriculture supported the middleman in his nearest town by repaying him for World War II losses and yet never gave anybody in the village a single drachma and how the middleman is still paying the same prices to the producer for tobacco, but is now selling at much higher prices to the cigarette company...
...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...