Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the war. when Greece tried to grab off large chunks of defeated Turkey, Gursel joined the forces of the late great Kemal Ataturk, helped to expel the Greek armies and to convert Turkey from an Islamic sultanate to a secular republic...
...should like to ask from what play all this has been taken, and when that play is going to be performed." Replied Lodge: "It is not out of any play ... I produced that to show the thoroughness of Soviet espionage." It was all faintly funny, and Basile Vitsaxis, the Greek delegate...
...creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind." Readers of this strange little book of aphorisms, which Kazantzakis finished in 1923 before he wrote such works as Zorba the Greek and The Odyssey: a Modern Sequel, will sense the greatness of the writer's spiritual longing, if not of his thought. They will hear some mental creaks, and they will find the consolation cool but nonetheless bracing...
...time of Darius I (522-485 B.C.) was a province of Persia. From that time until its final decline after the White Hun sacking of the 6th century A.D., Gandhara was swept from conqueror to conqueror. It was part of India for a while, and then came the Indo-Greek dynasties founded by the captains of Alexander the Great. The Scythians fought over it; Rome's Emperors Augustus, Trajan and Hadrian exchanged trade missions with it. Finally, in the 3rd century, the Persians took it over again. East and West clawed at Gandhara, and in the midst...
...recorded in newspaper headlines. With his famed charm, his solicitous attentions, and cascades of flowers, telegrams, parties and tete-a-tetes, he laid siege to a notable clutch of beauties, including Gene Tierney, Joan Fontaine, Yvonne de Carlo, Lady Furness, Kim Novak, Merle Oberon and assorted French, Italian and Greek film stars. Said a marquise reminiscently: "Aly could handle more women simultaneously than most men can in a lifetime." He also understood the far more difficult art of letting women down gently, and is fondly remembered by nearly all his ex-wives and ex-mistresses...