Word: spiridon
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...When Spiridon Louis had coins, jewels, and rings thrown in his path when he entered Olympic Stadium in Athens as the winner of the 1896 Olympic Marathon...
...result, Solzhenitsyn regards moral relativism as a virulent modern disease, though he distinguishes between actions natural to man-some of them violent -and unnatural cruelties. In The First Circle, after a discussion of what is right and what is wrong, a peasant-prisoner named Spiridon remarks: "Wolfhounds are right, cannibals are wrong...
...Place your hand on a woman's heart and she's yours instantly," said the arrogant Greek Julius Spiridon-who was certainly devastating enough to know what he was talking about...
Last week the New York Journal of Commerce reported that more trouble was blowing up for "Ari" Onassis. Ship Owner and Broker Spiridon Katapodis had filed a sworn deposition with the British consulate at Nice charging that Onassis had landed the contract only by paying high Saudi Arabian officials more than $1,000,000. Katapodis, who said that he was supposed to get $1,000,000 himself for being Onassis' go-between in the deal, announced in Paris this week that he was going to sue Onassis for reneging: Onassis, he claimed, signed the agreement with...
...wintry day in 1939, a short, thick-chested man who said he was a mechanic and looked as if he might be, signed the register at Istanbul's Continental Hotel as Spiridon Yanko Mekas. Mekas, who had just returned from Moscow on a Canadian passport, loafed around the lobby for nearly three months before he went on to Yugoslavia to make history under a different alias: Tito. Last week Marshal Tito-preceded by 200 armed bodyguards -returned to Istanbul for the first time since he checked out of the Continental 14 years...