Word: lycabettus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...barricaded streets and around the ruins on the storied hills the tide of fighting ebbed & flowed. British Lieut. General Ronald M. Scobie warned ELAS that he would attack "with all the arms at my disposal," did so next day. Sherman tanks, spitting shells, dispersed ELAS troops in Mount Lycabettus. Beaufighters scattered ELAS concentrations north of the capital...
...fetch food and water. Snipers' bullets and bursting shells made it hazardous to venture outdoors. U.S. Ambassador Lincoln MacVeagh and his staff evacuated the perilously placed Embassy in Queen Sophia Boulevard, moved into the American School of Classical Studies on the much safer slopes of Lycabettus. Food was scarce, even in ELAS areas where merchants' stocks were commandeered and distributed...