Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five authors of the report came from widely separated parts of the world and had been educated in profoundly different cultures, but they had one thing in common-they were all from what the U.N. calls "small nations": Australia, Ceylon, Denmark, Tunisia and Uruguay. The bulk of the work of preparing the report fell on the shoulders of Keith Shann, able young (39) Australian statistician-turned-diplomat, who on the day of publication flew back to his post as Australian Ambassador in Manila. To Shann's credit, he maintained a detached attitude in the presentation of fact and conclusions...
With sennets and flourishes, Cinemactress Jayne Mansfield brushed aside objections that she is too, too solidly fleshed for tragedy, announced that she was memorizing Hamlet's soliloquies, would follow the examples of Actresses Siobhan McKenna and Sarah Bernhardt by playing the Prince of Denmark, possibly on television. Proposed costume for Actress Mansfield: black tights, bare bodkin...
...five-column picture showed Britain's Prince Philip in Denmark standing over a simpering nurse named Peggy Goodchild (see cut). But if the Express (circ. 4,042,334) knew what "caused the twinkle in the Prince's eye and the obvious blush on the maiden's cheek," it was not telling. Instead, it offered a ?100 ($280) prize to the reader who sent in a caption arch enough to "capture the mood of the moment in the brightest...
...Mirror. The Mirror tracked down the photographer who took the one-in-ten-thousand picture, and he confirmed the Mirror's beat. Not only was the Prince not talking to the nurse when the picture was taken, but she was talking to someone else (Queen Ingrid of Denmark), as the uncropped photograph showed...
...Your tax dollars have helped Norway and Denmark to reduce their internal debt while ours was mounting," Chicagoans read last week. "We have financed a six-lane highway in Portugal, numerous uncompleted projects in Iran and are now providing free airplane excursions for thousands of Arabs visiting Mecca. The record is filled with innumerable instances of 'foreign aid' so dubious and downright silly as to be almost beyond belief. It includes dress suits for Grecian undertakers, public baths for Egyptian camel drivers and even iceboxes for Eskimos...