Word: danish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Glistrup does not even like the idea of having a Prime Minister, and thinks that any Danish government could get by with eight instead of the present 20 ministries. What post would he like? Minister for the Abolition of Bureaucracy, of course. Simplistic and nonsensical as his platform sounds, almost 500,000 of Denmark's 3 million voters chose it, making the Progress Party, with 28 of the Folketing's 179 seats, the country's second largest...
...unhappily, toward unity. The latest Middle East war has shown just how tenuous that unity still is. Last week in Copenhagen, the Common Market Foreign Ministers met and agreed on a French-sponsored plan for periodic summit meetings. The first will be held Dec. 14 and 15 in the Danish capital in an atmosphere of unusual intimacy-even the Foreign Ministers will not be allowed into the discussions by the heads of state. Such a format, the Ministers reasoned, will allow their bosses to talk on a few key subjects and, with luck, reach a consensus. TIME's Chief...
...corner on the world's violence, no nation offers its citizens such grand opportunities to display their dissatisfactions with such destructive results. A few random examples, courtesy of Sherrill's research: Dateline New York. Two youths ask a shopkeeper for apple pie. He offers them Danish pastry instead and is shot dead. Ohio. An engineer living near an Air Force base tattoos a number of bomb-laden B-52s with his deer rifles to protest their takeoffs over his house. California. A Glendale landlady loses an argument with a tenant when he shoots her with a German antitank...
Driving deeper into Syria, we passed abandoned concrete bunkers built into the sides of the hills by the Syrians and protected by blast walls nearly six inches thick. Strewn about were hundreds of empty cans of Danish beef and Lebanese cheese. A camouflaged truck, looking quite new, sat abandoned outside one of the bunkers. Our escort officer, a major in intelligence, searched the truck and came out with a manual printed in Russian...
...Danish architect, who drew his sketches without visiting Australia, was struck by photographs of the dark landscape and tangled foreshore scrub: "There is no white here to take the sun and make it dazzle the eyes-not like the Mediterranean or South America. So I had white in mind when I designed the Opera House. The final effect will at times resemble what we call Alpengluhen [alpenglow], the color you get on snowcapped mountains when the sun is setting, the beautiful pink and violet reflections from the combination of mat snow and shiny ice." The bouquet of shells, holding...