Word: denmark
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...thrown a left hook aimed for the North Sea and the submarine bases at Emden, Wilhelmshaven. He had columns within shelling range of Bremen. He punched his right hard & fast toward Hamburg, the biggest German port. If the Germans in the north counted upon a last stand in Denmark, or possible flight through it to Norway, Monty might soon scramble their ideas...
Crown Princess Ingrid of Denmark wheeled her eleven-month-old child, Princess Benedikte, along Copenhagen's Amaliegade, leading to the royal palace, was caught between an exchange of bullets by Danish collaborationists and patriots, ducked to safety in the nick of time...
...National Tea for months before he decided to get into the grocery business. Founded by an immigrant, the late George S. Rasmussen, National Tea ran into difficulties not many years after he left the company to his sons, George S. Jr. and Robert V., and went home to Denmark. By 1937, National Tea was in the red by $1,365,280. McKinlay was brought in to try to pull it out, though Robert stayed on as president...
...week brought the 84-year-old Anglican a thoroughgoing rebuke from 19 famed Protestant leaders. Their statement charged the former Dean with forgetting some recent history. Germany's Lutheran Church, said the churchmen, "has offered a more stalwart resistance to Nazi tyranny than has any other group. In Denmark and Norway, the Lutheran Church ... has been the very center of opposition...
...more than 90% Lutheran. Those who would "put an end to Luther's influence in Germany" should reflect that Hitler and his advisers are not and never were Lutherans, and that Lutheran pastors have been the chief obstacle to Hitler's absolute sway in Germany, Norway and Denmark, and for that reason they have suffered imprisonment and martyrdom by the thousands...