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Word: greek (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...practice, Classics 206 relies on a couple of textbooks on Greek sports, plus the classics' numerous chorals to coordination, such as Pindar's Odes to victorious athletes or Theocritus' blow-by-blow description of fancy-dan Polydeucus outboxing Heavyweight Amycus, which may well be the origin of a human myth most recently disproved by Sonny Liston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Greeks at Old Sewanee | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

Roaming over nine centuries, and celebrating an amateurism unknown at other Southern campuses, Classics 206 also includes "labs" out on the football field. The students box Greek style, lope like Greek marathoners, toss a round stone "shot," skim a flat stone "discus," compete in wildly Hellenic wrestling free-for-alls. Winners go without Achilles' top prize, "fair-girdled women," but the exercise is splendid, and Sewanee's phys ed department is ecstatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Greeks at Old Sewanee | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

Exporting Men. To compete on even terms with industrial Europe, Greek business has to make seven-league strides. Emerging from the devastating war years, Greece had runaway inflation, scant capital resources and a technically innocent labor force. Since the free-enterprising government of Premier Constantine Karamanlis took office in 1954, it has stabilized the drachma and set Greece on the course toward industrialization. The economy is still lopsidedly agrarian. More than half of the 8,400,000 Greeks scratch out a living on uneconomic fruit, tobacco and cotton farms; 8% of the non-farm labor force is jobless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greece: Into the Market | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

...Common Market, underemployment becomes an advantage: Greece is the only Market member that offers surplus labor. Recruiters from the great companies of Western Europe scour whitewashed Greek villages for willing workers, and 100,000 Greeks are now working in West Germany alone. To keep the men at home but get them off the farm, Greece's economic policymakers are pushing through many business-priming laws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greece: Into the Market | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

...Italy's Pirelli, France's Pechiney and Saint-Gobain. The U.S.'s Reynolds Metals is breaking ground near Delphi for a $59 million aluminum plant using Greece's ample reserves of bauxite, and Dow Chemical has opened a polystyrene plant at Lavrion, site of ancient Greek gold and silver mines. From the rocky perch near Athens where Xerxes once helplessly watched his mighty Persian armada being turned back by the tiny fleet of ancient Greece one can see welders' torches winking blue in the three-year-old Niarchos Shipyards. Not far away, a scaffolding marks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greece: Into the Market | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

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