Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...orthodox T-formation play, with Bill DoGraaf faking a hand-off to a back coming across the line, and then pitching out to Dick Jackson. It wasn't a new play, nor a very hard one to diagnose, but it was enough to give a good Cornell team a 20-7 victory over Harvard Saturday...
Damage amounting to perhaps $300 million was wreaked on the stores, homes and possessions of Greeks in Turkey; scores of Greek Orthodox churches in the country were fired or defaced; some 300 persons were injured. It became evident that the Turkish government had not wanted to halt the violence or-worse from a standpoint of stability in a NATO country-had been unable to stem it. "I must admit," said Menderes, "that we were exposed to a national catastrophe, the object of a real attack by surprise." Western diplomats were also slow to realize how deep and serious...
...Scene 2. On Cyprus, the London failure fanned mounting tension into mobbish terrorizing. The spiritual leader of Greek Orthodox Cypriots and the eminence grise of the enosis movement, 42-year-old Archbishop Myriarthefs Makarios, while renouncing violence, busily heightened the enosis fever both on Cyprus and the Greek mainland. Local British security officers recommended his deportation but London wisely decided to leave the influential archbishop alone. But more Royal Marine Commandos were sent to the island from Malta to disperse demonstrators, and guard against explosions. Still violence increased. Last week the British Institute at Nicosia was sacked by a shouting...
...state Wouk "is a devout Orthodox Jew . . . who has achieved worldly success in worldly-wise Manhattan while adhering to dietary prohibitions and traditional rituals which many of his fellow Jews find embarrassing." Did it ever enter your reasoning that perhaps many Jews just don't believe in the dietary laws...
...streets, bent on destroying stores run by Istanbul's Greek-speaking minority. The rioters shattered shop windows, tore down steel shutters, littered the pavement with heaps of merchandise, and beat up policemen who tried to restrain them. Shouting "Cyprus is Turkish," rioters set fire to buildings and Greek Orthodox churches, while others seized a Cadillac belonging to Greek Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras (a gift from Cinemogul Spyros Skouras) and shoved it into the Golden Horn's muddy waters...