Word: andersen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...King's six pretty daughters, she was the youngest and fairest. "Her skin," said Denmark's Hans Christian Andersen, "was as soft and tender as a rose petal, and her eyes were as blue as the deep sea-but like all the others, she had no feet. Her body ended in a fishtail...
...Little Mermaid. And of all the Sirens and Scyllas seen by all the storm-tossed mariners, she was the first and only daughter of her finny race to serve as Neptune's permanent, peaceful ambassador to the footed world. Inspired by the Andersen story, a sculptor gave her form. Her abode became a wave-washed rock outside Copenhagen's harbor; her sleek, demure figure personified the life-giving sea and sea-sustained Denmark...
...worst plain and fancy lying Washington has ever seen," Stone continued. He illustrated this with several statements from leading "Cold Warriors." Secretary of State Dean Rusk once said that although Vietnam is progressing "it is not a full constitutional democracy." "If that isn't like Hans Christian Andersen!" Stone said...
...artificial about it, that it does not try to hide its functional aspects (like the unsightly utility core, which, God knows, ought to be hidden). "Functional honesty" seems to me a marvelously clever way of passing off cheapness and embarrassing people into acceptance of unfinished concrete exteriors. Hans Christian Andersen's emperor, after all, was dressed in a most functionally honest...
After 4½ months of counts and recounts, a panel of three district court judges last week picked a winner in the race for Minnesota's governorship. Their decision: Democrat Karl Rolvaag over incumbent Elmer L. Andersen by a bare 91 votes out of 1,239,593 cast-Republican Andersen decided against a last-ditch appeal to the state Supreme Court, thereby ending one of the longest delays in U.S. history in deciding a gubernatorial contest...