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...best man at Georgadjis' 1967 wedding). The Greeks insisted that Georgadjis had supplied the explosive with which assassins tried to blow up Papadopoulos' car. Georgadjis thereupon helped form the Unified Democratic Party, which might have won enough seats in June's scheduled parliamentary elections to hoist him back into the Cabinet - against Makarios' wishes. Thus his murderers could have been members of one of the pro-Makarios secret armies on the island. They could have been Greek officers in Cyprus' National Guard, still bristling over the Papadopoulos affair. Or they might have been Cypriots...
Gibbon was a small man, just over five feet, and so fat that when he knelt to a lady she had to summon a servant to hoist him to his feet. Rather fussily elegant in his dress-flowered velvet suit, lots of ruffles, snuffbox to flutter over-Gibbon exuded a tepid blandness. Joshua Reynolds painted a deadly portrait of him. His profile is distinctly not that of a Roman emperor. He has the eyes of a maiden aunt, a tiny Cupid's mouth, and a second chin far more impressive than the first. Even his hands manage to look...
...edge of bankruptcy. The Busch project could double the county's $80 million tax base in a few years. The development is also likely to attract more tourists to Williamsburg. Perhaps some will emulate Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, all of whom were known to hoist a few brews in those very environs almost 200 years...
...coming into the - weather mark on a starboard tack and bearing off to port. The foredeck chief and crew will hoist the spinnaker pole. The bow man jumps into the forward hatch and hooks in the guy, sheet and halyard to the spinnaker. As we round the mark, the foredeck crew hoists the spinnaker and lets down the jib. The navigator holds the jib on an auxiliary sheet as the port tailer releases the jib sheet. The port tailer is then free to take in the spinnaker sheet while the other tailer takes in the after guy. Then...
...York producers can hoist their own glasses: though their some 35,000 acres of vineyard cannot match the Californians' 463,000 acres, their sales are growing faster. While California's share of the U.S. wine market has ebbed from 88% to 76% since 1950, New York's has grown from 7% to 12%. In these figures, some wine experts detect a subtle taste shift from the inexpensive, sweet dessert wines of California to the drier and more dear (by as much as 50%) varieties produced in the harsher climates of upstate New York. In New York...