Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They were led by Artillery Colonel George Papadopoulos, 48, who took over the most important Cabinet post, Minister to the Premier. The plot had been in the works for two years and involved 300 of the Greek army's 8,000-man officer corps. The date for the take-over was decided, said Colonel Papadopoulos, by intelligence reports that the Communists intended to launch a coup of their own last weekend. Not many Greeks believed that story...
...List. The officers who seized power in the name of King Constantine shared one uniting passion: an almost puritanical desire to reform and cleanse Greek politics and society. One of the first orders was not the execution of saboteurs or the establishment of a five-year plan; it was a Cromwellian decree that girls must stop wearing miniskirts, that boys must get short haircuts and that all young people should regularly attend church. Colonel Papadopoulos compared the take-over to a surgeon's treatment of a patient. "If the patient is not strapped to the table," he said...
...that set records around the clock, and with each record came a mystery. Rumored seller of the Picasso: a member of the Greek Embiricos ship-owning clan. Top bidder: a Manhattan dealer named David Mann, who dashed off with his prize without even waiting to have it wrapped. New owners: still unknown at week's end. All Mann, who was pledged to secrecy, would say was that "they are a young American couple, relatively new to the art-collecting scene. I think the wife had known this painting for a long time. It was a dream of hers...
...protest march began at the Public Garden at the corner of Arlington and Boylston Streets. The demonstrators marched up Arlington St., and made a left on Commonwealth Ave. to St. James Ave., where they congregated in front of the Park Square Building, which houses the Greek consulate...
Pike explained his inability to accept traditional dogma. For example, he said, the doctrine of the Trinity is not even mentioned in the Bible -- which he called a "mishmash." The doctrine was thought up by a group of early Greek bishops, and we are asked to believe it on the Church's authority, he said. Moreover, if the doctrine of Christ's descent into hell were part of some primitive religion, he said, we would call it nonsense...