Word: danish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beat the Senators 6-0, threw only 85 pitches, walked only two men and finished the first no-hit, no-run game of the 1957 season. ¶ Although she wasted 40 valuable minutes of swimming time searching for her pilot boat in the chilling waters of the English Channel, Danish-born Greta Anderson Sonnichsen, 30, now a California housewife, showed more speed and stamina than any of the other 23 men and women entered in the international mass swim from France to England. She made it from Cape Gris-Nez to the cliffs of Dover...
...Copenhagen, Danish-descended Val Peterson, new U.S. Ambassador to Denmark and onetime federal Civil Defense administrator, collected a plaque sent to him by citizens of Dannebrog, Neb., pleased bike-loving Danes by pedaling jauntily about on a two-wheeler...
Innocent Middleman. In Copenhagen, Ole Jensen, arrested for counterfeiting Danish employee holiday stamps-so expertly that he was able to turn them in at post office windows, a book at a time, and collect $64 in refunds-conceded that he knew it was illegal but did not think it really wrong since the post office could reissue the books and recover its money...
...standards, this too was a restrained speech. He made no demands that the U.N. Emergency Force withdraw from Egypt's borders. He made no mention of Israel's ships passing into the Gulf of Aqaba. And in a week of nationalist celebrations, Egypt permitted the Danish freighter Birgitte Toft, under charter to Israel, to pass through the canal with a cargo of rice for Haifa-the first such ship on Israeli charter to go through Suez since last year's Sinai war. (An Israeli sailor, however, was taken off the ship and held...
Testifying before the House Banking Committee , last week. Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. described the problem of controlling the vigorous U.S. economy in terms that even a schoolboy could understand. The Federal Reserve Board, said Martin, is in the position of the ancient Danish King Canute, who demonstrated his human limitations by giving orders to the tides. Yet Martin made it clear that even if the U.S. economy is too strong for the Fed, some attempt must be made to control or at least temper its insatiable appetite for money. Said Martin: The Fed's tight...