Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CYPRUS Death at High Noon One sunny morning last week, a Land-Rover carrying seven Greek Cypriots bounced up the road to the tiny village of Ayios Sozomenos. Though only twelve miles distant from the capital city of Nicosia, the village is centuries away in time. To reach it, one travels four miles along a rutted road off the main asphalt highway and then some two miles over goat trails before the cluster of tile-roofed houses is dis covered crowded between a dry watercourse and a steep mesa of grey rock...
...Greeks say the men in the Land-Rover had intended to turn on a water pump that serves a nearby town, but were ambushed by Turkish Cypriots hidden in the dry riverbed. The Turks charge that the men in the Land-Rover opened fire on the village shepherds, who replied with their shotguns. With two dead and two wounded, the Land-Rover raced out of range, called for help. Greek Cypriots, armed with a variety of weapons, poured from neighboring villages. By noon they had surrounded Ayios Sozomenos and begun a battle that raged for five hours. At last, British...
Pitchfork Charge. TIME Correspondent Robert Ball watched the fighting from a nearby hillside, then entered the village to see the grisly results. His report: "The bitterest fighting was at the western edge of the village, where the attacking Greeks had the cover of gnarled olive trees. In one mud-brick hut, where nine Turks had taken refuge, a window was blasted by a bazooka-type rocket, and the second floor literally sieved with bullet holes. In desperation, one Turkish shepherd tried to flee to the riverbed, but was cut down a few feet from the door. Another grabbed a pitchfork...
...Faculty also heard a minute on the late Arthur Darby Nock, who was Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion, delivered by Zeph Stewart, Professor of Greek and Latin. A minute on the late V.O. Key, who was Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History and Government, was delivered by Merie Fainsod, Leroy B. Williams Professor of Political Sciences...
...will be divided into several two or three week segments during which different professors will lecture on individual authors. In the first semester, lecturers will probably include Cedric H. Whitman '38, professor of Greek and Latin, on Homer; Finley on Sophocles; Wilbur M. Frohock, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, on Rabelais; Bullit on Cervantes; and Harry T. Levin '23, Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature, on Shakespeare...