Word: tavernas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Captain Sam Melling, 44, British-born father of four, onetime R.A.F. flyer, chief pilot of Cyprus Airways, was enjoying a Saturday afternoon lunch with Wife Iris at a taverna in the mountains near Nicosia when he heard the news on the radio. Far below, in Nicosia, two gunmen had committed a political murder and were herding hostages to Larnaca airport. "I think we'd better dash back," said Captain Melling. "I'm the biggest hat in the company, and I'd better...
State officials have asked restaurants not to serve water with meals unless a diner insists. They figure it takes two glasses of water to wash each glass and estimate the savings-if all the restaurants in the state comply-at 1 million gallons a day. At the Taverna Yiasou Restaurant in Marin County, Manager Beth Taylor has gone even further: she has switched to paper plates, thus conserving the water normally used for 25 loads of dishes at each lunchtime...
...DIARY reflects a diffusion between the poet's life and work that eludes anecdote, rumor or publisher's blurbs. The song wafted from a nearby taverna and overheard at night; the grace in three ancient pieces of a fallen lintel lit by the noon sun; grief for a cat's death. This interplay of nature, humanity and inanimate objects that affects the fragile balance of Seferis's poetry, always startles...
...sided with Germany and its allies during World War I. Under British rule, a wary but peaceful coexistence developed between Greek and Turkish Cypriots. Greek landowners in the jagged Troodos Mountains leased their pastures to Turkish shepherds; Turkish shopkeepers bought oranges and carobs from Greek farmers. In the village taverna, Turk and Greek sat at separate tables but spoke politely to each other, usually in Greek...
...O.A.S. agent who was sent to Athens just prior to De Gaulle's May 1963 visit. The agent's mission: to shoot the general with a special camera that fired bullets. The gunman lost his fake identity papers during a lively evening at a local taverna and refused to take the risk without getaway documents. A new set arrived a day too late, and all he got was a photograph showing how close he had been to De Gaulle...