Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PHOTOGRAPHER on the Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) News trained his telephoto lens on Greek Shipping Magnate Aristotle Onassis' 325-ft. yacht, the Christina, hoping to get an intimate picture of the distinguished guest aboard. He got a shot of Sir Winston Churchill, wrapped in a blanket, reading a newsmagazine that has had him as its cover subject eight times...
...handsome, husky man at 54, Karamanlis is something of an outsider among Greek politicians. He does not come from the tight little circle of Athens families who have traditionally run Greece. Instead, he is the son of a schoolteacher from Macedonia, which Athens sophisticates consider Endsville. But Karamanlis has restored order to Greece's turbulent postwar politics, and stability to its economy. In his six years as Prime Minister, he has built a modern highway network that connects Athens and Salonica with hundreds of villages that once were far from the main drag, brought electricity to hundreds of thousands...
...words, Karamanlis is the idol of Greece's peasantry, draws fire from Greek left-wingers for his unflinching loyalty to NATO. When Greek tempers flared against the British during the long Cyprus crisis, Karamanlis resisted intemperate demands for a break with Britain, and his moderation contributed heavily to the final settlement. Karamanlis is an outspoken supporter of the Western side in such places as Laos, where, he insists, "the Soviets are just playing with us. They start something here, they start something there. The time has come to make a stand...
...gauge for measuring the influence of science, Tillich took the Greek word telos: "the inner aim of a life process." To the classical Greeks, said Tillich, man's inner aim-his telos-was "the actualization of his potentialities and the conquest of those distortions of his nature which are caused by his bondage to error and passions." This idea, common to Heraclitus, Socrates, the Stoics and the Epicureans, is still alive in the modern world in the "humanist" tradition...
...circumstantial evidence of thievery. Though innocent, Ionides was scarcely helped by the fact that he was a known poacher of pheasants and that his desk drawer contained two loaded revolvers. Though his family was proper Edwardian and had been in England for generations, he was also tagged as "the Greek" and as "Ironhides" for his stoic composure under the most severe canings...