Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter Administration, like the Ford Administration, tends to blame Congress for overreacting to the Turkish occupation of Cyprus. The invasion was provoked by years of Greek-Cypriot repression of the Turkish minority on the island and by an abortive Athens-instigated coup in Nicosia. Ethnic loyalties have unquestionably played an unhelpful part in U.S. policy. An influential circle of a dozen or so legislators of Greek heritage rammed through the 1974 embargo, which was lifted only last year. The same "Greek lobby" was instrumental last week in blocking House approval of a $50 million military grant to Turkey. Since...
...fall from grace, therefore, was all the more dramatic. In surprisingly sympathetic words, the prosecuting counsel, Peter Taylor, noted: "The tragedy of this case ... is that Mr. Thorpe has been surrounded and in the end his career blighted by the Scott affair. His story is a tragedy of truly Greek or Shakespearean proportions-the slow but inevitable destruction of a man by the stamp of one defect...
Astride the silk and spice routes, the region, known as Bactria in ancient times, came under the influence of numerous cultures: Indian, Mongolian, Parthian (a Persian people), nomadic (from the Eurasian steppes) and even Roman. All collided with the Hellenistic Greek domination of Alexander the Great, who conquered Bactria in 331 B.C., and his Seleucid successors. Two centuries later, the Greco-Bactrian kingdom was overrun by nomadic groups, among them the Parthians, Saka from the steppes and five Central Asiatic tribes called the Yiieh-Chih...
Indeed, the treasure seems to abound with unexpected nuggets of history. One of the graves has yielded a coin that totally baffles the archaeologists; it could be evidence of a semi-mythical Indo-Parthian kingdom thought to have existed in the area. Another of the skeletons shows strong Greek religious influence. Stuck between the teeth is a coin, symbolic payment to the boatman who ferries the dead across the River Styx to the Underworld...
...James Merrill's last book of poetry, was a 90-page narrative that turned a parlor game into a trip through the first circles of the supernatural. The Book of Ephraim recounted how Merrill and his friend David Jackson used a Ouija board to contact Ephraim, a witty Greek Jew born in A.D. 8; it then followed the two-way conversations that ensued over the next 20 years. This device gave the added ballast of history to Merrill's already established lyric and autobiographical skills; Ephraim's was the spirit of a number of ages...