Word: manoli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...covered by black woolen hoods, walked into St. George's Greek Orthodox Church in the town of Kythrea during a service and shouted to the 40 worshiping villagers: "Stand up and face the wall!" Then, with a single pistol shot, one of the hooded men killed Lay Reader Manoli Pierides while he was in the act of chanting the Gospel-apparently on account of Pierides' British sympathies. A policeman was shot to death in a cafe; two more British soldiers were killed...
...bewildered face of the General, the chauffeur's terrified eyes . . . [The] chauffeur was reaching for his automatic, so I hit him across the head with my kosh [blackjack] . . . and George . . . dumped him on the road. I jumped in behind the steering-wheel, and . . . saw Paddy and Manoli dragging the General out of the opposite door. The old man was struggling with fury . . . shouting every curse under the sun . . . [We bundled] him into the back seat [and he] kept imploring, 'Where is my hat? Where is my hat?' The hat, of course, was on Paddy's head...