Word: returned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearly a month, Greece has been gripped by a bitter and highly significant struggle. On one side were the hard-lining former military officers, who sought to perpetuate their rigidly moralistic rule. Pitted against them were the more moderate revolutionary leaders, who favored an eventual return to some form of parliamentary government. After a series of shifts and political maneuvers, it is finally clear that the moderates, led by Premier George Papadopoulos, have emerged the winners. Their victory signaled the start of a new chapter in Greece's post-revolutionary development...
...organizing parties. "I would be happy," he said, "if someone got started." But Greece's remaining political leaders, including former Premier Panayotis Kanellopoulos, have refused to cooperate in any way with Papadopoulos. The Premier hopes to convince them that their boycott is only delaying Greece's return to normal parliamentary rule...
Morgan's return to prison set the stage for his crowning achievement. While at Leavenworth, he brought a lawsuit against the warden and the chief medical officer. Both, he contended, had ordered "unqualified inmates" to inoculate him with a drug that gave him permanent injuries. Claiming that they were acting "under color" of federal office at the time, the two men got their case removed from a state to a federal court...
Grey's only regular contact with reality is the one letter he can send each month to his mother, who lives in Norwich, England, or to his girl friend, Shirley McGuinn, who lives in London. He desperately awaits their return letters. He can see the mail arrive in the court yard, but he must then wait for the guard to deliver it, usually in a batch, days later. His own letters, guarded and understated, convey the agony of isolation. "You often say you hope I am keeping cheerful," he recently wrote his mother. "It would be quite dishonest...
Several other Harvard students turned in their cards during the rally, but for personal reasons were forced to ask for their return, although they still wished to be a part of the anti-war movement. In one case a local draft board returned 4-D status to a student who brought suit, but most of the local boards held firm on the basis of a directive issued by Selective Service head Lewis B. Hershey asking reclassification for demonstrators...