Word: axel
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People of the Book tells not one but two parallel stories. The first follows the public acts and private thoughts of the two great Protestant leaders of the Thirty Years War, the brilliant commander King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and his equally brilliant chief minister, Axel Oxenstierna. The second story dives into the ebb and flow of destruction across the shattered principalities of Central Europe to follow the fates of a young man, Lars Larsen, and the lovely little sister he is trying to bring up and lead to safety. The two stories join only at one point, where Oxenstierna...
Despite their quarrels over justification, the delegates at Helsinki had no trouble in picking a successor to Dr. Franklin Clark Fry as president of the Lutheran World Federation for the next six years. He is shy, solemn Dr. Fredrik Axel Schiotz, 62, president of the 2,300,000-member American Lutheran Church, which has its greatest strength among Midwesterners of Scandinavian and German origins...
...part, had had a series of platonic love affairs, but invariably backed away when her suitors pressed too closely. She was deeply stirred by only three men in her life, and all three were extravagant egotists who demanded affection from women that they could not wholly reciprocate: Axel Munthe, the brilliant, posturing Swedish physician and author (The Story of San Michele), with whom...
...lilting strains of Johann Strauss's Graduation Ball wafted through Cortina, Italy, as a sturdy blonde girl glided around the open-air rink. The music leaped, and the girl leaped too-a twisting "double axel" that sent her hurtling through the air until she glided back on the ice. The music played on, and each time it soared, she soared-through intricate "flying camels," "double toe-loops" and "flying sit-spins." The performance ended. The Netherlands' Sjoukje Dijkstra, 21, smiled sweetly, acknowledging the bravos. She smiled again, less demurely, when the judges announced her score...
Ever since astronomers first analyzed the atmosphere of Jupiter and found a blanket of noxious gases thousands of miles thick, most scientists have assumed that the distant planet is devoid of life. But just because earthlings could not live there, says British Amateur Astronomer Axel Firsoff, is no reason to believe that Jupiter is not a populous place. Animals might well thrive even if their planet is covered with a limpid ocean of cold, liquid ammonia...