Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first King to rule Norway as an independent monarch since the 14th century, Haakon (rhymes roughly with token) began life as Prince Carl, second son of the ruling house of Denmark, with little hope and even less desire of becoming a ruler. His elder brother Christian was destined to succeed his father on the Danish throne. In a desperate motherly effort to secure a like position for Carl, Denmark's Queen Louise did her best to promote a marriage between him and The Netherlands' young Queen Wilhelmina. Carl would have none of it. Smitten with Britain...
...once (1923) hammered off the frozen toes of his left foot, hopped actively on a peg leg after a subsequent amputation. With his face also frozen, Freuchen grew a full red beard, only shaved briefly to be less recognizable when he joined the wartime resistance in Nazi-held Denmark. In 1945 he settled in Manhattan as U.N. correspondent for Copenhagen's Politiken, but he was ever anxious to head back to the Arctic. With explorer friends Sir Hubert Wilkins, Admiral Donald Mac-Millan, Colonel Bernt Balchen and Lowell Thomas, he had arrived in Alaska to make TV films when...
...making his villains into heroes. Gogol tried to explain away the real significance of his comedies. It was almost as if the authors of Oklahoma had inadvertently turned out Hamlet and had written to the New York Times to explain there was nothing rotten whatsoever in the state of Denmark...
...campaign into industrial Essen, Adenauer had the sausages on his side. Wily Campaigner Adenauer talked of sausages, and brought his audience rising with cheers to their feet when he told them just how much more fat sausage they eat in free-enterprising West Germany than in Socialist Sweden or Denmark...
...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...