Word: greekness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Annihilated by the Greek army...
...Slowly being beaten back by the Greek army...
...prodding, as head of a Liberal-Right wing coalition, he pursued the civil war as best he could. He was generally regarded as Greece's wisest statesman (which was not saying very much) ; he was certainly more honest and better liked by his people than most other Greek leaders...
...scoffed at all who said that he was getting old, reminded them that his father lived to be 105. But his face had turned yellow with age; he had repeated heart attacks. Greek government officials began to carry black ties in their pockets, to be ready for official mourning the minute the boss died. It was said that during one of his attacks, last year, when doctors tried to move him to the left of the bed on which he lay, The Old Man muttered: "No, please-let me die in the center...
...last week, he was getting ready to meet Queen Frederika at Athens' Hassani airport; the Queen was his special favorite-he had once referred to her, within King Paul's hearing, with a Greek phrase that can be translated as "quite a dish." Sophoulis, as he was dressing, said to his housekeeper: "When I was ill the Queen came to see me and brought me flowers. She is so sweet." A few minutes later, death, as it must to all men, came to Themistocles Sophoulis. King Paul asked Right-Winger Constantin Tsaldaris, now Foreign Minister, to succeed...