Word: polemo
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...gold-mining project in Macedonia, an ECA official snapped: "The best place to dig for gold in Greece is in people's mattresses." The imprint of war still remains heavy on the land-and even on the language. A Greek washerwoman, bent over her heaped sink, will say: "Polemo tin bougada" (I am making war on the laundry). A truck driver sprawling underneath his truck will say: "Polemo tin mechani" (I am at war with the engine). After nine years of invasion, occupation and civil war, polemen (to make war) in colloquial Greek has replaced ergazer (to work...
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