Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scene was somewhat reminiscent of a Greek tragedy--the audience at the Harvard-Yale squash match knew the history, but they showed up to line the Hemenway gym stands anyway, just to see if there would be any new wrinkles in the story...
Atomos, the Greek root of 'atom,' means indivisible, and it was once thought that atoms were the ultimate, indivisible constituents of matter, that is, they were regarded as elementary particles. One of the principal achievements of physics in the 20th century has been the revelation that the atom is not indivisible or elementary at all but has a complex structure. In 1911 Ernest Rutherford showed that the atom consists of a small, dense nucleus surrounded by a cloud of electrons. It was subsequently revealed that the nucleus itself can be broken down into discrete particles, the protons and neutrons...
While Cyrus Vance toured the Middle East last week, President Carter's special envoy Clark Clifford, 70, flew to another eastern Mediterranean trouble spot. His mission: to bolster U.S. relations with Greece ; and Turkey and to help resolve the longstanding impasse between Greeks and Turks on Cyprus. In 1974, following the Athens-inspired coup against Prelate-President Makarios, Turkish troops invaded the island, and the savage war left Cyprus with an internal frontier of barbed wire, mines and armor. Turkish forces seized the northerly 40% of the island, causing some 200,000 Greek Cypriots to flee to the south...
During the talks, Makarios defended the demand of the Greek Cypriot refugees to return to their former homes in the Turkish-controlled part of the island. But he accepted as a reality a separate Turkish ethnic state that will be a legitimate part of an eventual two-state federation. Denktas. said he was willing "to reduce the Turkish Cypriot-held share of the island from 40% to about 33%-and perhaps more. Both leaders agreed that further talks, scheduled to be held next month in Vienna, will cover such complex issues as the return of some refugees to their former...
...scholar interested in solving a puzzle of history, Meroitic, a cursive form of writing from ancient Kush, offers limitless opportunities. Egyptian, Meroitic, and Ge'ez developed into written forms much earlier than most European languages; they are as important for the study of ancient African civilizations as Greek and Latin are for ancient European civilizations. It should also be noted that Egyptian preceded every European language, including Greek, in written form and holds greater importance for our understanding of the whole ancient world before the first millenium B.C. than any other known language with the exception of Akkadian and Sumerian...