Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Greek who owns that shipbuilding firm," declared a third...
...selection as the Republican vice-presidential candidate. For if the Maryland Governor has done little to excite attention beyond the borders of his own state, he has done even less to arouse real antagonism in the G.O.P. Outside Maryland he has been known chiefly as the first Governor of Greek descent...
...Greek Orthodox Church in the U.S. is steadily becoming less Greek than Orthodox. Probably a fourth of its estimated 1,800,000 members no longer speak the language of their ancestors, and the bishops have been under constant pressure from younger laymen and many parents and priests to allow the celebration of the Divine Liturgy in English. This year, in an effort to renew its links with Hellenic tradition, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America decided to hold its biennial congress of clergy and laity for the first time in Greece. The result was enough to transform...
...heritage of modern man, in fact, is richer than ever before in history-"richer than that of Pericles, for it includes all the Greek flowering that followed him; richer than Leonardo's, for it includes him and the Italian Renaissance; richer than Voltaire's, for it embraces all the French Enlightenment." Furthermore, they foresee no limits to man's long upward journey. "If progress is real despite our whining," they conclude, "it is not because we are born any healthier, better or wiser than infants were in the past, but because we were born to a richer...
...like Greek names," shouted an open-shirted gent walking towards the refreshing mid-afternoon shade of the Harvard Gardens...