Word: muleback
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Handsome, strapping (6 ft. 3 in.) King Paul, 54, inherited the battered Greek crown from his late brother George II in 1947 when Greece was bleeding from the civil war, and with his vivacious Queen Frederika, toured the country by jeep and muleback to restore confidence in the throne. He reigns with a minimum of pomp and with a warm public following...
...cruise ship nosed its way through the Isles of Greece, stopping daily to give the tourists a chance to see the sights by bus or on muleback, royal teen-agers hacked around like any other kids, squirting each other with pop, staging impromptu Olympic games in ancient stadia and rewarding winners with stolen kisses. In the evening there were movies, and sometimes all hands joined to practice the mambo and the rumba, with Frederika easily carrying away top dancing honors. While the youngsters gulped gallons of Coca-Cola, their elders forsook champagne in favor of solider Scotch...
...winning them over to her side. During the first years of Paul's reign, scarcely a square mile in all the 51,000 that formed Greece was left untrodden by either the King, the Queen or the royal couple together. They rode in jeeps, crossed mountains on muleback, slept on dirt floors and ate with the peasants. No fighting front was too hot to keep them away. Once with Paul at the wheel, the royal jeep took a short cut through a mined road. The Queen picked up her husband's baton of rank, and. waving it over...
...Prince its first nettoyage à sec. After the predictable number of mangled sleeves and missing buttons, Jimmy's crew of five began to get the hang of dry-cleaning. The tele jiol (Creole for word-of-mouth telegraph) advertised his service, and bundles of clothes poured in on muleback and in baskets on peasant women's heads. Jimmy expanded his plant, opened a laundry (the Blanchisserie Jimmy). Today his business is worth...
...film. It is all merely true." But, in its unrelieved gloom and its total sociological despair, The Young and the Damned sometimes seems as one-dimensional and as far short of the truth as a lurid propaganda poster. Typical sequence: the body of a murdered boy being carted on muleback to a public garbage dump while his mother unknowingly passes...