Word: piraeus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...holding it together would be entrusted to a younger deputy Premier: 74-year-old Alexander Diomedes, economist, Byzantine scholar, novice in politics. Some Athenians professed to see a portent in the fact that, on the day the new government was formed, a two-headed baby was born in Piraeus...
Fear is in every volley that sounds at Piraeus...
...AMAG report showed that five airfields were being "winterized," work had started on repairs to three stretches of highway, repairs had begun on port installations in Piraeus and Salonika, and work would soon begin on clearing the Corinth Canal (blocked by German demolitions since...
...Athenians there was one happy occasion last week. At Piraeus, the port of Athens, Archbishop Damaskinos said a blessing over a bargeload of flour (see cut). It was the first tangible evidence of the $17,000,000 worth of supplies sped to Greece under the U.S. aid program...
...wait," said the police. Twenty minutes later they carried off Tsakolos. An hour later he was at Piraeus, headed for exile on an Aegean island...