Word: karditsa
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...Hundred Gold Pounds. The story of George Magalios illustrates the point. George, who lived on the outskirts of Karditsa, was a big, handsome man, still dark-haired and active for his years. He had worked hard all his life, and from his savings bought a rare farm possession for Greece, a tractor-drawn combine. With it he had made enough money to educate his eldest son Anastasios, 22, and to build up respectable dowries for his four pretty daughters...
...Open the Door." One day during the guerrilla attack on Karditsa, a man banged on George's front door and shouted: "George, it's me, John. Open the door, for Christ's sake!" John had been best man at George's wedding many years before. The voice sounded like his, so George opened the door slightly. Outside he saw several armed guerrillas. George fired twice at a man who tried to force his way in, slammed the door and bolted it, ran upstairs, grabbed a grenade and tossed it through the window down into the group...
...many monasteries which cling to those hillsides, he paused before a picture of the Virgin. He put his last coin in the offering box, there & then resolved to enter the Greek Orthodox priesthood. An uncle, a well-to-do priest, shepherded him through the schools of Karditsa, where he excelled as a wrestler and javelin thrower...
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