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  • Order a thimble of strong, raki-spiked elliniki coffee and hobnob with black-shirted shepherds listening to Cretan music on Radio Kriti FM at the kafeneion in the central square, then pay a call at the corner house, cluttered with memorabilia, where sweet-voiced Nikos Xylouris grew up.

    Insiders' guide to Greece 2011

  • ÂHundreds of black-cloaked women sat and whispered to each other on one side of the hall or in stalls above, while stoic black-shirted men occupying the other spoke with serious faces.

    Mark Kalch: Walking on a Dream -- Alone Across Iran, Part 2 Mark Kalch 2011

  • When I went back to Gaza in February 2010 to give evidence in Mohamed's behind-closed-doors military trial, a black-shirted "prosecutor" yelled at me: "You are not a witness, you are an accused."

    The Day Mohamed Laid Down His Rocket Launcher Paul Martin 2011

  • Order a thimble of strong, raki-spiked elliniki coffee and hobnob with black-shirted shepherds listening to Cretan music on Radio Kriti FM at the kafeneion in the central square, then pay a call at the corner house, cluttered with memorabilia, where sweet-voiced Nikos Xylouris grew up.

    Insiders' guide to Greece 2011

  • Hundreds of black-cloaked women sat and whispered to each other on one side of the hall or in stalls above, while stoic black-shirted men occupying the other spoke with serious faces.

    Mark Kalch: Walking on a Dream -- Alone Across Iran, Part 2 Mark Kalch 2011

  • Not only were the black-shirted characters costumed to suggest that the action took place in Nazi Germany, but Jean Rosenthal lit the show in a manner intended to evoke the Nuremburg rallies.

    Relishing a Lost Production Terry Teachout 2010

  • A British newspaper over the weekend quoted someone who had read an advance copy of The Journey (whose front cover photograph shows a tie-less, black-shirted Blair looking not unlike an ageing Cote d'Azur gigolo).

    Boycott Blair's Book! 2010

  • Leaders of the Red Shirts say they do not know who the black-shirted fighters are or where they came from.

    Anti-government clashes in Thailand bring stalemate to a city and nation 2010

  • Leaders of the Red Shirts say they do not know who the black-shirted fighters are or where they came from.

    Anti-government clashes in Thailand bring stalemate to a city and nation 2010

  • A British newspaper over the weekend quoted someone who had read an advance copy of The Journey (whose front cover photograph shows a tie-less, black-shirted Blair looking not unlike an ageing Cote d'Azur gigolo).

    Boycott Blair's Book! 2010

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