Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...left because of the strange effect of current and bottom on the vessel's own hull curvature. In addition, the Suez pilot must be familiar with the workings of virtually every type of vessel and must be able to issue orders in a babel ranging from Greek and Arabic to French and Norwegian. Under the canal's pre-Nasser bosses, a master's certificate backed by ten years' experience at sea were minimum requirements for a Suez pilot, and even then it took two years of apprenticeship on the canal to teach a new pilot...
...centuries that followed, its remains were lost beneath the accumulation of ages, and the once lively Agora itself became a depressing shantytown whose drab life gave no hint of past glories. In 1922, with the help of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, the Greek government decided to do something about it. It took nearly a decade to complete the necessary arrangements, and the work, once begun, was interrupted by war. But by 1946, with the help of American money -$1,135,000, most of it donated by John D. Rockefeller Jr.-the excavation and exploration...
...Sour Note. Last week the newly reconstructed Stoa of Attalus stood completed, its 92 marble pillars gleaming with unaccustomed whiteness beneath the clear blue Athenian sky. A bevy of American and Greek scholars, statesmen and other dignitaries, including King Paul and his pert, pretty Queen Frederika, gathered at the site to dedicate the rebuilt remembrance of the past. And in all the polite and grateful words spoken, there was only one sour note. Greek Professor Anastasios Orlandos, his nation's highest authority on ancient monuments, was unable to attend, but he sent a note of dissent...
...dignity to beauty contests-an institution which the church has consistently opposed-the promoters of the Miss Italy contest at Rimini decided to put all entrants through a culture quiz. The results were disastrous. The beauties could not identify Hamlet, Lucrezia Borgia, or even Romulus and Remus (said one: "Greek twins''). None knew the boiling point of water, which in Italy is a simple 100°C. One was unable to name a single Italian wine-her brave try: "Champagne." Without congratulating the winner, Nives Zegna, 19, of Milan, the Vatican's eminent Osservatore Romano editorialized...
Stampa put its tongue in its cheek: "It is almost like one of the Greek tragedies she knows so well...