Word: metaxa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last Sunday, the Greek Orthodox Easter, the general visited the Greek battalion in Korea, who welcomed him as a vividly remembered friend. He remembered some of them, too. After the inspection, he went to a table where Metaxa Brandy and red-dyed Easter eggs were set. It is an Orthodox custom for two friends each to take an egg and strike them together; he whose egg remains unbroken is supposed to be the better man. Van Fleet tried this with the Greek commander, and there was much good-natured guffawing when the American's egg cracked...