Word: piraeus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blackness before dawn, the Greek ship Chimara, 1,800 tons and packed with 548 passengers, slogged through windblown seas. She was close to shore, off the eastern tip of the Attica peninsula. Her journey from Salonika to Piraeus (Athens' port) was to end in a few hours. But some of her 87 crewmen were restive. They knew the menace of floaters; some had protested against night voyages in these waters, which had been heavily sown with mines during...
...talk was necessary, the giant aircraft carrier U.S.S. Franklin D. Roosevelt and a heavily gunned, six-ship escort lay at anchor last week almost in the shadow of Italy's Mt. Vesuvius (see cut). They would move on, in reply to a Greek invitation, to the port of Piraeus four days after the Greek plebiscite Sept. 1 (see INTERNATIONAL...
...pointed up by the approach of the U.S. aircraft carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt to Piraeus on a timely goodwill tour (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). For behind the issue of Greece lay a cognate issue: U.S. and British determination that Russia should not control the Dardanelles and hence the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East. And beyond the issue of the Dardanelles loomed the biggest issue of all: the struggle between the U.S. and Russia for the control of Germany...
...Feldman who used to live in our apartment house?" It was. And Barmine soon became aware that he must pay the usual price for knowing a liquidated man. Soon his comrades in the legation tried to lure him aboard a Russian ship which had unexpectedly appeared in the Piraeus...
...Almost all police stations in Athens and the Piraeus had been occupied or stormed by ELAS forces, some with the slaughter of every single inmate. Firing was widespread throughout the city. It was growing; it was approaching...