Word: greeks
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...this guy who was in the Dutch men’s eight who also won silver [to the US’s gold]. And we were kind of like comparing our medals, and—it does have the event on it, but it’s in Greek, so I can’t read it, and I was a little drunk at the time, so I just grabbed his medal and I was switching them around (she motions as if she were playing two medal monte) and mixed them up, and he was like “Mine?...
...could crank up the music and turn down the lights?” They couldn’t turn down the lights, but they did turn up the music, but they didn’t have the kind of music we were talking about. It was just like the Greek folk music. It turned out being kind of cool because a lot of the dining hall staff started doing Greek folk dance and holding hands, so a bunch of athletes were standing in a circle around them clapping. It kind of turned into a dance party anyways, just...
...find the Greek people...
MORE THAN 60 YEARS ago, a Polish Jewish lawyer named Raphael Lemkin fled Nazi-occupied Europe, arrived in the U.S. and invented a word that he thought would change the world. Lemkin believed that genocide-- from the Greek geno (race or tribe) and the Latin cide (from caedere, killing)--would carry such stigma that states would be loath to commit the crime--or to allow...
...than his colleague's, reflecting a broader life experience and cultural knowledge. Quiet and serious, he doesn't do the "matey" thing. Yet as he moves around his inner-city electorate on a cold September day - from a drop-in center for the poor to an informal lunch with Greek pensioners - Tanner exudes warmth and empathy...