Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every Greek murdered, an Englishman will be murdered. We offered peace, but our enemy thought -we were weak and provoked...
With that warning signed, Colonel George Grivas, leader of the Greek Cypriot terrorist underground, EOKA, last week ended his truce with the British authorities who rule embattled Cyprus. It came as news to many Britons on the island that there ever had been a "truce." In the previous week one British soldier had been killed and four wounded in a seven-hour gun battle in which they killed four EOKA men holed up in a barn near Famagusta; on the streets of Nicosia, a British airman walking hand-in-hand with his wife was murdered by three EOKA gunmen...
Massive Boycott. Britain's "partnership" plan, introduced last June, had run into massive resistance from the Greek majority. Under it, Cyprus would get limited self-government with separated Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot legislatures; Turkey and Greece would each appoint a special representative to advise the British Governor. Turkish Cypriots, who had been holding out for partition, grudgingly accepted "partnership...
...care enough about the British cricket test matches to want to be told they've been rained off in one-inch type?") Foley will order replates by phone from his bed to keep up with the island's latest explosion, blithely ignoring groans from his Greek printing staff...
...Peculiarities of national speech make it nearly impossible for a Greek to pronounce a b, an Arab a p, a Russian an h, a Frenchman a th. In the Sicilian Vespers of 1282, when Sicilians rebelled against their Angevin overlords, those suspected of being Frenchmen were forced, in an irresistible repeat of the Biblical shibboleth, to repeat the Italian phrase ceci e ciceri, and slaughtered when they could not manage the Italian ch sound...