Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When the Greek general Pyrrhus knocked the Romans around way back when, he soon became a discouraged man, despite his victories...
...bottoms of crates filled with alarm clocks from Czechoslovakia. The hidden cargo is always the same: pistols, submachine guns, mortars and sometimes even rocket launchers. According to one estimate, one out of every ten trucks entering Greece carries contraband weapons. Says Greece's Maritime Minister Alexandras Papadogonas: "The Greek seas are simply a corridor for the vast trade in arms that is now going on in the eastern Mediterranean." In all, at least 10,000 illegal weapons have been confiscated by Greek authorities since the beginning of this year. "A mere dribble," sniffs one Western intelligence analyst, who estimates...
...century Bible translation, and two dozen scholars are working on a new edition to be issued in the mid-1980s. At their annual gathering last June, the translators took up the sexism issue and readily agreed to drop masculine language that is not included in the original Hebrew or Greek text...
...buildings we know well, we take for granted; they seem so functional that we forget their role as artificers and artifacts, and neglect the built environment until too late. Thus New Yorkers wept more for the loss of the Brooklyn Dodgers than for Penn Station; Harvard recovered its Greek coins, but threw away Hunt Hall...
...Hill. Maryland voters sent the present incumbent, Republican J. Glenn Beall, to the Senate six years ago as a replacement for Joseph P. Tydings, a liberal Democrat considered by many as too aristocratic and aloof to appeal to ethnic, working-class voters in Baltimore. Sarbanes's Greek ancestry provides natural ties to these voters, while his Rhodes scholar background helps him among the intellectual chic of Washington's suburbs...