Word: anglo
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...Danish explorer and author; in Copenhagen. Mikkelsen first indulged his zeal for polar exploration at the age of 16 by walking 320 miles from Stockholm to Göteborg in an unsuccessful attempt to join an Arctic balloon flight. Later he captured world attention by leading the 1906 Anglo-American polar expedition, a two-year journey that established the fact that there is no land directly north of Alaska. Between 1909 and 1912, Mikkelsen led a mission in search of the diaries of another brave Dane, Mylius-Erichsen, who had died while exploring the northeast corner of Greenland. After recovering...
Mindful of Congress's testiness, Secretary Connally is touching every responsive chord he can reach in his defense of the loan guarantee: jobs, defense, national pride, Anglo-American relations and the future of technology. "We think the price this nation would have to pay if Lockheed went bankrupt entirely justifies this action," he said last week. "Besides, we're gonna have the additional collateral of getting our money out first." One of Connally's biggest selling points is that, unlike the final Penn Central rescue proposal, Government-backed loans to Lockheed will be paid off before...
...Still, Anglo-Saxon palates were hearty rather than decadent. Lots of meat broths and stews were the order of the day. Salt was obligatory in cheese and butter as well as on meat, making home-brewed ale equally obligatory. All lips smacked through the age of Chaucer...
...racial cliche damaging to our minority image has lied its way into the American mind. In films, in plays, in novels, the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant is consistently portrayed as an elderly, square parent-type, a money-oriented materialist who cares more about his electromobile than his wife and children...
...active possibility once again, De Gaulle's old fears have reappeared among France's numerous linguistic patriots. Recently, 32 leading intellectuals and members of the venerable French Academy carried their worries directly to Georges Pompidou; in a bristling letter warning of the dangers of "subordination to the Anglo-Saxon world," the group demanded that the President take steps to see that French would remain "the working language of an enlarged Europe." Pompidou's reply included a solemn pledge "to preserve the legitimate place" of the French language in Europe...