Word: danish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surprising to be told that Adam and Eve spoke English? Not necessarily. As Author Jacobs points out, German, Hungarian, Swedish, Celtic, Danish and Basque scholars have all proved to their satisfaction that their respective language was the one spoken in the Garden of Eden. A 17th century Englishman demonstrated that the language must have been Chinese, since a newborn baby's first yell is the Chinese word...
Toward Manhattan. At first everyone, including much of the Danish press, pooh-poohed Denmark's decision, and some nations openly hooted. A spokesman for the French Atomic Energy Commissariat pronounced it "extraordinary and absurd in view of the fact that the crew has lived aboard the Skate for so long with no sign of contamination." Officials in The Netherlands and West Germany said they would be delighted to receive Skate. Washington fired off a barrage of reassurances. Rear Admiral Hyman Rickover declared that ''there has been a review of all possible mishaps," and that the submarine...
...Pirates! Buccaneers!" cried Copenhagen newspapers, and the government was equally angry. For the first time, the complacently highbrow Danish State Radio was up against competition. Last week many of its 1,450,000 listeners were switching to crass dance music laced with commercials. Source of the jarring notes: a tubby freighter that flew the flag of Panama, safely at anchor twelve miles offshore, beyond Danish territorial waters...
...vain the Danish government protested to Panama. But on the first day of scheduled operation last month, the weather did better than the government. A fierce storm toppled the big antenna into the sea. Undaunted, Fogh made repairs. He already has contracts worth $292,000 from commercial-time sales. His goal: 800,000 steady listeners and a lot more kroner. Says he happily: "We hope to break the state monopoly and eventually get permission to operate on dry land. After that, we'll build a television transmitter as well...
...Melchior chatted with Denmark's King Frederik IX at a celebration in Copenhagen of the Royal Guard's 300th anniversary. A guardsman himself in his nimble youth, Melchior crossed the Atlantic for a month's vacation in the old country with a 40-man delegation of Danish-American Guard grads, sang out loud and clear at the parade and at a festive veterans' dinner in the Tivoli Gardens...