Word: katsikogianni
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Barba Katsikogianni, 89, said: "I was president of this village in 1913. I was president when the Italians came and my old woman got a bad heart from fright. I was president when the Germans came to find the British officers we were hiding; and I was president last year when the goat-thieves [guerrillas] came to drag me up to Helicon . . . [He was saved when the Communists fled before an approaching army unit.] Lots of the young ones who were up there are back in the village now. Two of them-Danos and Georgios -were with...
Other Greeks had other ideas on this score, and thousands this week settled down to a favorite national pastime: scribbling possible cabinet lists on the backs of cigarette boxes. If the scribbling was productive, Greece might get what old Barba Katsikogianni longed for and what Greece herself had not known since 1940-Irene...
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