Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every turn, Spaak, 59-year-old former Socialist Premier of Belgium, met with suspicion, delay and doubletalk. "If the general public could sit in on these talks," declared one who had sat in, "they would be appalled at the haggling." "Barring war," declared Greek Foreign Minister Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza, Greek-Turkish relations "could hardly be worse...
...Greeks were even hinting at dropping out of NATO. Yet Athens popped up with a surprise concession. Bearded Archbishop Makarios, temporal and spiritual leader of the Greek Cypriots, dropped his old demand for enosis (union of Cyprus with Greece). He would be willing, he said, to settle for independence for the island after a period of internal self-government...
...London, Makarios is almost as bad a word as Nasser. The British, who exiled him to the Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean in 1956, do not trust his word. What was to prevent the Greek Cypriots, once they got independence, from deciding, for instance, to unite with Greece...
...with a deck half again wider than that of any ship transiting the canal before, showed up at Port Said on an emergency dash to reinforce the Seventh Fleet off Formosa. The Egyptians eagerly built a special platform on the deck, and from this vantage their senior pilot, a Greek with 30 years' experience, conned the flattop through, nonstop. "I'm trying to give my customers the best,'' says the authority's able, open-shirted Managing Director Mahmoud Younis, 46, a fellow soldier of Nasser's with good engineering experience. "I realize they have...
...science, gerontology. Properly the study of aging in all living things, and involving social as well as medical sciences, it has focused most sharply on the aging human since 1903, when Elie Metchnikoff suggested in The Nature of Man that "this science may be called gerontology" (from the Greek geron, an old man). In 1909 Internist Ignatz L. Nascher coined the word geriatrics (from geras, old age, and iatreia, cure) for the medical care of the old. Geriatrics has grown as a sub-specialty of internal medicine, but is not yet recognized as a fully distinct specialty-and many geriatricians...