Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nicosia looked as tranquil as the Mediterranean that laps the island's shores. In one suburb, children skipped rope while their elders played tennis near by. It took a sharp eye to spot the sandbags piled in upper-story windows. Behind some sat flinty-eyed Greek Cypriots with automatic weapons. Behind others were grim-faced Turkish Cypriots with bolt-action rifles. On a roof behind still another row of sandbags stood a Danish noncom attached to the United Nations peacekeeping force, stationed in Cyprus for the past two years. "Sure, it's dull today," he said...
...three-month extension would hardly solve the Cyprus problem. But it would probably keep the uneasy peace that now exists. The Turks realize that they are outgunned and outmanned 3 to 1. Yet Greek Cypriots show no burning desire to take the offensive, since they are effectively in control without violence. The fierce fire fights of 1965 have given way to only sporadic bombings. "We have peace but no progress," says U.S. Ambassador Taylor Belcher. "Nobody feels pressure to try for a solution...
...cheek and printed their names, their pictures and their reviews of the show (all raves) in a great big blat of a full-page ad. And in the course of a long guerrilla war against Howard Taubman of the Times, he pointedly reprinted one of Taubman's reviews in Greek and suggested sympathetically that the poor chap required "vocational guidance...
...Gilbert Highet, head of the classics department at Columbia University, recalls that he was particularly busy that winter. Then a professor of Greek and Latin, he had taken on a new course, and night after night he sat at his desk composing his lectures. Meanwhile, his wife sat on the couch near by, quietly scribbling away with a pencil. One evening she stopped, drew a firm line on the paper and said with a sigh of relief, "There. That's done. Would you like to read it?" Highet said rather vaguely, "Yes, of course." He started to read...
...print. Also as usual, the hero is firm-chinned, clean-limbed-this time a young American economist named John Craig who, armed only with good manners and innocence, is recruited to help thwart an ingenious Communist scheme to penetrate U.S. security. The plot involves a trip to the Greek island of Mykonos, and MacInnes evokes a picture of its windswept charm, just as in previous books she evoked the charm of Brittany, Venice and Berlin. Despite the current mania for Bondian gadgetry, her spies still hide their microfilms in hollowed-out tie clasps; neither her heroes nor villains spill gore...