Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...official reason was that Turkey had illegally used U.S. weapons in the 1974 invasion of Cyprus, and a number of Congressmen argued that the ban would pressure the Turks into negotiating a compromise. But there were several other reasons for the vote, including strong anti-Turkish lobbying by Greek Americans and a feeling that Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had both mishandled the Cyprus crisis and failed to show sufficient deference to Congress...
...EVIDENCE for their belief that these ties are binding more and more people together today, Moynihan and Glazer point to the sheer number of ethnic conflicts that have erupted in the past twenty years: Catholic and Protestant in Belfast, Walloon and Fleming in Belgium, Greek and Turk in Cyprus, black and white in the US, etc., etc. They appear depressingly correct on that point...
...marble has the soft, veiled surface of wax. The play between smooth volume and wiry, chiseled line that gave such life to Nadelman's Greek models is not there...
...convicted in Montreal Wednesday in connection with the theft of $3 million worth of ancient Greek and Roman coins from the Fogg Art Museum two years...
...that she was interrupting my lunch, that I was in a rush to catch a plane, and that I could not talk to her at that time. On September 11th, your reporter called and said she wanted to talk about Harvard's plans for a program in Modern Greek studies; I replied (she may recall that I had to repeat the same sentence twice since she did not appear to comprehend it on the first hearing) that in view of the fact that she had already spoken with President Bok about this I did not feel that I had anything...