Word: greekness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story came to light last week during a formal Greek army court-martial. It happened at Klidi, a mountain village on the strategic Kozane-Florina road. Klidi's 600 inhabitants are mostly illiterate and know little of democracy; as for the civil war, many of their kin fought with the government, many with the guerrillas. The only thing the people of Klidi knew for sure was that they wanted to hold on to their rich cornfields. For that reason, they had collaborated with the Nazis during the German occupation; for that reason, they obeyed the rule of their proedros...
Namesake of a Queen. Dimitrios was in excellent standing with the Greek army, which considered him a loyal nationalist and supplied him with arms for his village guard. Dimitrios, in turn, denounced as Communists many of his fellow villagers. The army never noticed that most of those he denounced were husbands or fiances of pretty village women. Nor did the army find it suspicious that, whenever the guerrillas attacked in the region, Klidi was spared...
Many of the finest things that archeologists dig up were once junk thrown away by the owners. Recently unearthed was a beautiful Greek relief of an Ethiopian slave and a horse saddled with a panther skin (see cut). Carved about 125 B.C., it would probably have been destroyed long ago by weathering if it had stayed in its original place. But when Greek civilization degenerated into barbarism, the two marble slabs were used as secondhand building stones to line a rough, crude tomb in the suburbs of Athens. This insult to the carving saved it. When Greek archeologists dug them...
Mahmout offered to deliver the mules to Athens at $325 a head. Two U.S. traders offered bids of $320 and $328. The Greek government rejected all three bids as too high...
...took a closer look at the deal. It finally told Mahmout he could sell the mules, provided he bought them through established U.S. mule dealers. To make matters worse for him, EGA refused to pay his profit in dollars. He wotfld have to take that in Athens, in Greek drachmas. As for the mules, Ferd Owen got half the order (3,750) and Parker Jameson got the other half...