Word: surtaki
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aboard that night will soon forget the party on the yacht Christina last August. While the guests flirted, drank, dined, and danced the surtaki, a bouzouki band beat its heart out. The host listened with a touch of melancholy as the musicians played his favorite ballad...
...After its first 100 days in power, the junta that took over Greece in a lightning coup has restored order to a country that was torn by political strife. It has done so at the expense of much of Greece's exuberant, explosive spirit. The image of a surtaki-dancing, owzo-glass-smashing people is being replaced by that of a docile folk whose chief concern seems to be getting to church on time and keeping the young girls out of miniskirts. Not since Calvin put the fear of God into Geneva has any regime so devoted itself...
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