Word: greek
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According to the relativity equations, that "tachyon" (a name that Feinberg coined from the Greek word for "swift") should have other strange characteristics. Unlike familiar particles, which gam mass and energy as they accelerate toward the speed of light, Femberg's particle would lose mass and energy as it accelerated beyond the light barrier. At infinite speeds, it would theoretically have no mass or energy at all. Like a plane going faster than the speed of sound, a tachyon with an electrical charge would generate a "light boom" as it traveled faster than 186,000 m.p.s. The boom would...
...Greek-born Tom Pappas has made a lifetime habit of cultivating the powerful. Now a cherub-faced, grandfatherly figure of 69, he has become a power himself -though not always quite so potent as he likes to let on. He says: "Spiro followed my advice and switched from Rockefeller to Nixon." The largest U.S. firms seek his aid before doing business in Greece, where Pappas counts as the best-connected American citizen around. His close ties with Greece's strongman, George Papadopoulos, and the ruling military junta have made him an unofficial representative of Athens in Washington...
...Greece-Breaking an Old Habit" [Jan. 24]: The old Greek habit you refer to is long dead. It died when Greek taverns became 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...
...them first at a Greek feast, which one of the students had organized for the last Saturday night of the fall trimester. A lamb was taken whole out of the fireplace (still a little bloody) and afterwards there was dancing or watching-dancing from the beams on which so many people had stretched out. Before I left Cambridge, I had been told, "If you speak with someone at Antioch for five minutes, it is assumed you will sleep with him." This had caused a moment of uneasiness about going to visit a cousin of mine there...
...Some just stay around. There is the case of the student who refuses to take a French course, and while waiting for the college to change its language requirement, has taken over the local film monopoly, teaches the folk-dancing courses (which satisfy physi- cal education requirements), goes to Greek feasts...