Word: greekness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Esther Pohl Lovejoy, 97, pioneering medical missionary, a petite Oregon physician who followed wanderlust and the healing arts around the globe, joined the 1897 gold rush to Alaska, served World War I hospital duty with the Red Cross in France, in 1922 tended Greek refugees under siege by the Turks in Smyrna, and as chairman from 1919 until last May of the American Women's Hospital Service founded clinics for the homeless in 30 nations; in Manhattan...
...Greek word for power (bia) and life (bios) reflect the essential interrelationship of power and life... We must not apologize for the existence of (our) group power, for we have been oppressed as a group, not as individuals...
...Greece, The First 100 Days" [Aug. 4]: You, like many other American writers, indicate that you feel the Greek coup was a big mistake and that Greece has taken away the freedom of the people. In reality, the Greeks acted aggressively against Communism which was gaining too much power in Greece. I say it was best to clean house now instead of later. You see, this is a long-range cleaning up, but the end result should be shining and new and for the better. It is better to have a temporary lack of freedom than to wait until...
...Greek living in Albania, Thomas Karathanos saw the Communists torture his father to death in 1944 and himself spent five years in forced-labor camps. In May of 1954, he and six surviving members of his family attempted to flee to Greece; Albanian border guards ambushed the party and slaughtered all save Karathanos, who made good his escape [TIME, July...
...constituents balked and deposed him. Webster insists that he has the guns and money to go it alone. And the West Indies are alive with rumors that he is being besieged with offers of help from underworld types anxious to establish a gambling haven, land developers, and a Greek shipping magnate eager to fly the Anguillan flag (two mermaids holding a seashell, a spear and an olive leaf) as a cost-cutting flag of convenience. Evidence to back up the rumors is as elusive as the eel for which French explorers named Anguilla 400 years ago. The only hard fact...