Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Earlier in the week Cripps announced that the dollar deficit had been reduced, and the London Daily Telegraph made one of the worst puns in years: "There is no truth . . . in the rumor that when Sir Stafford Cripps preaches in St. Paul's he will wear a surplus...
...Greece's long-deferred hopes were still far from fulfillment. The Greeks were flushed with victory, and impatient for its fruits; last week, all they got was. a political dogfight...
...months, non-partisan Alexander Diomedes had headed an uneasy coalition cabinet of Populists and Liberals. Last week the coalition broke up, largely because of fat, fatuous Dino Tsaldaris, onetime Premier who served as Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister in the Diomedes cabinet. For weeks he had been on the stump, campaigning for the impending Greek national elections; he had infuriated the Liberals, had antagonized Marshal Alexander Papagos and War Minister Panayotis Kanellopoulos by loudly claiming credit for his own Populist party for the victory over the Communists...
...protest against Dino's doings, Liberal Leader Sophocles Venizelos last week resigned as Deputy Premier; Marshal Papagos and War Minister Kanellopoulos followed suit. A caretaker government under John Theotokis, until recently the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, took over; King Paul dissolved Parliament and fixed the general elections for February...
...This week, Greece's chaotic flock of 50-odd political parties was getting ready for the impending campaign. Most plain Greeks were fed up with all of them; none seemed good enough for the staggering task of reconstruction...