Word: danish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russia furnished Danish shipbuilders with materials to build two $3,000,000 tankers. That was two years before Congress passed the Battle Act, which empowers the President to cut off U.S. aid to countries caught sending strategic materials behind the Iron Curtain. The tanker deal was no secret, but not until last month did the U.S. protest officially, hinting strongly that aid to Denmark might vanish with the Apsheron...
...start under General Eisenhower, who hoped it would help SHAPE'S multi-nation families to live and work together in harmony. Last January, when the first term began in a reconverted farmhouse, there were 28 boys & girls on the rolls. Now there are 148 students-Norwegian, Danish, Italian, Canadian, Dutch, French, British and American-ranging from four-year-olds to teenagers. When the school opens next fall, Headmaster Rene Tallard, who is also senior English teacher at the boys' high school in St. Germain, expects the enrollment to jump...
...suggestion was the work of one Dr. Svend Nielsen, a Danish pathologist currently employed at the S.P.C.A.'s Angell Memorial Animal Hospital in Boston. After dispatching a total of twelve burly and belligerent New England lobsters, the doctor came to the conclusion that they were capable of pain. With a sharp, clinical eye, he noted that shortly before death "the tail is seen to perform small fitlike movements" and that it curls tightly when the lobster finally cashes in its chips. This did not mean, however, that "our humane friends" could not enjoy lobster meat without "those disturbing thoughts...
...acquainted tour of the NATO countries, General Matthew Ridgway spoke at Elsinore, Denmark, where he won Danish hearts by his closing phrase: Held og lykke ("Good luck to you all"), delivered in faultless Danish. In Oslo, after a meeting with King Haakon, who will be 80 years old in August, 57-year-old Soldier Ridgway reported: "I could spend hours with him. But he was very thin, and I think he should eat more...
...Copenhagen last week, Labor's ex-Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison told Danish Socialists: "You cannot hold recognition from a government simply because you do not like it. I do admit that we have not profited from our recognition gesture . . . but it has not made me change my mind. I still think Mao should have Chiang's seat at the U.N., and when we get back into power, we are going to bring pressure to bear to that end . . ." Conservative London newspapers clucked over his indiscretion, but dissented only to the extent that Red China should not really...