Word: macedonia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have been to a varsity soccer game this season, you've heard that voice from the top of the stands at Cumnock Field. In Macedonia soccer is the national sport, and Phil Kydes, responding to the cry of his father, brings the excitement of that Greek play to the Crimson forward line...
...like illness, sometimes affords its survivors unique insights. Sculptor Lucas Samaras, 32, grew up in Macedonia during World War II and the Greek civil war. Now a U.S. citizen, he still remembers "the bombings, the hiding, my aunt's ripped belly, the sound of executions, the strange pride in being visited by a catastrophe...
Plato's follower, Aristotle, disagreed with the abolition of family life, but applied much of the Presidential Academy teachings to the son of Philip II of Macedonia at the ruler's request. Who emerged from the system and conquered a major portion of the world? Alexander the Great...
...dress began to appear everywhere. From barracks in Athens and all over Greece, troops slipped quietly out and took up battle stations in every key town, at every major intersection, at every railroad station, airport and radio transmitter. From the lovely plains of Lakonia to the forbidding hills of Macedonia, Greece quickly found itself last week under the grip of a new master: the army...
...GARDENERS OF SALONIKA, by Alan Palmer. During World War I, the Allies used Macedonia as a dumping ground for out-of -favor generals. But in 1918, French General Franchet d'Esperey refused to stay dumped; instead he struck boldly at the heart of Germany through Belgrade and Vienna. Palmer tells the story of D'Esperey's swift and decisive drive in highly readable style, and wonders aloud why this strategy was not followed three years earlier...