Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end Cyprus' stores were running low on locally produced cigarettes; Cypriot cobblers happily reported soaring demand for their ill-made shoes; and thousands of tickets for a government lottery on behalf of Cyprus' hospitals were going unsold. Some 1,300 headmen and elders of Greek Cypriot villages resigned office in open refusal to cooperate with the British authorities in any way. Said one weary British businessman: "I thought passive resistance meant everyone was going to lie down on railroad tracks the way they did in India in Gandhi's day. This looks worse...
...years since he succeeded the late great Field Marshal Alexander Papagos as Premier of Greece, ruggedly handsome Constantine Karamanlis, 50, had infused the Greek government with a new spirit. Son of a Macedonian schoolteacher, Karamanlis still bore traces of the simple manners of the north, displayed an honesty and a vigor alien to the wealthy Athenians who generally dominate Greek politics. Under his driving leadership, the gross national product jumped 9% during 1956-57, and the Greek farmer prospered as never before...
...weeks ago, after prolonged secret negotiations with the leaders of the chief opposition parties. Karamanlis proposed a new electoral law that would reduce the number of Deputies in the Greek Chamber from 300 to 250, modify the unwieldy proportional-representation provisions of the existing law. Deputies from small parties and even some members of Karamanlis' own National Radical Union protested that the proposed law threatened them with political extinction. But Karamanlis, allowing his Cabinet only a glance at the bill, submitted it to Parliament...
Shippers know that the stormy seas will eventually calm. The inevitable growth of world trade will demand all their ships-and more. But to stay afloat until then, Greek tramp-ship owners in New York and London last week were anxiously searching for a plan to cut costs and increase revenues. One idea is to set up a series of unbreakable dry-cargo rates to ensure an operating profit on each voyage. Failing in that, the Greeks may be forced to reduce their surplus tramp tonnage by laying up still another 20% of the fleet, assessing each owner with...
This passage, midway through Ten Seconds from Now, not only attests to Greek Novelist Kay Cicellis' powers of evocation but also sums up the condition of her characters, who rely mainly on the bitter wine of unreciprocated love to keep their untidy and unhappy lives going. The setting is a radio station, apparently in Athens, and the characters are male news announcers and girl disk jockeys. A day-and-night jangle of pop love tunes plays ironic counterpoint to the staff's self-tortured prisoners of love. The narrator is a crippled male receptionist, a kind of latter...