Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fabled old Greek, Diogenes, had he toted his lantern around Middlesex County, would have had an easier time finding an honest man than a Republican candidate for county office. The GOP is conspicuous by its absence in county races this November, and it leads one to wonder whether the "two party system" is a political phrase, or really the way in which a Belmont socialite spends his Saturday nights...
...father and his fellow Greek immigrants been given sympathy and federal money, they might have been the most successful immigrants this country has received...
...summer morning, over the objections of her parents, the young woman puts on a Greek wedding dress and marries her lover at the county courthouse. They soon move into a farmhouse on the estate. Three months later, the bride seems despondent. She is found one afternoon lying on the ground with a fatal gunshot wound in her head. A coroner rules that she has committed suicide, and she is buried in the Staunton Hill graveyard, beneath a headstone that bears the Greek words for Little Flower. Her husband moves to Hoover, Ala., works as a stockbroker, and then returns...
Michaelides is expected to be tried in Athens under Greek law. As a Greek national he cannot be extradited to the U.S. Meanwhile, the Virginia dossier on the case is being forwarded from Virginia to Greece. Last week in Athens, Michaelides asked: "What had I to gain by murdering the woman I loved? Inheritance? I refused all rights to it when she died." He did admit, though, that after her death, he accepted presents of $100,000 from each of her two brothers as a "show of sympathy and liking." He maintained that his former wife's death was clearly...
...technological resources. Moreover, by establishing strong links with the Japanese, the Chinese had moved forward in their determination to shift the balance of power and isolate the Soviet Union in the Far East. Peking had even succeeded in inserting a clause into the treaty condemning "hegemony"?the favorite Greek pejorative of the Chinese, used to describe Soviet expansionism...