Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aristotle Onassis, who is vain about his public image, came in for a great deal of vitriol. But Hughes Rudd, commenting on CBS News' 60 Minutes, defended him. "The question of his being a Greek had nothing to do with it at all, of course: Prince Philip is actually of Greek descent, but as London cabbies are fond of saying, 'He's not one of your restaurant Greeks.' Well, neither is Mr. Onassis one of your restaurant Greeks. He's one of your shipping-millionaire Greeks, and he sounds a lot more fun than Prince...
...ceremony that joined the pair was almost self-consciously modest. Rain, considered a blessing by the Greeks, had descended like a grey benediction across the Onassis-owned island of Skorpios. In the tiny chapel, Jackie stood quietly-almost in a daze-in her beige chiffon-and-lace dress, Ari in his dark blue business suit. John and Car oline, each carrying a single tall white candle, flanked them. As Archimandrite Polykarpos Athanassion intoned the solemn Greek of the nuptial liturgy, Jackie and Ari exchanged rings and wreaths of lemon blossoms, and drank wine from a single chalice. Then the priest...
...Olympic competition, the decathlon most closely reflects the original Greek ideal of all-round athletic excellence. An entire track and field meet in miniature, its ten events in two days add up to the toughest individual test of speed, stamina, strength and spirit ever devised. The man who wins the Olympic decathlon well deserves to be known as the finest athlete in the world. That man last week was William Anthony Toomey, a 29-year-old schoolteacher from Santa Barbara, Calif., who not only captured the gold medal but set an Olympic record in the process...
...world?two skeletons making love on a tin roof." A hardheaded Scotch drinker (only at night), he has smashed upwards of $700 worth of crockery in bouzouki establishments, and has been known to snore in a La Scala opera box during a Callas première. Even his fellow Greek shipping kings long dismissed him as a crude upstart. Says one acquaintance: "He was trash to some Greeks, the way old Joe Kennedy was trash to some Irish...
...From the Greek. At Bootle, near Liverpool, Prime Minister Wilson opened a $37 million data-processing complex that is to be the heart of one of the most fully automated banking systems in the world. Called Giro-the word comes from the Greek gyros, meaning circle-the system will circulate funds within the country's huge post-office network. With a deposit of $12, anyone will be able to open a Giro account. An account holder can leave standing instructions to have his regular bills rent or mortgage installments, telephone and electric bills-paid automatically out of his account...