Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overall dynamic of the vast bazaar. If his timing is lucky, he can almost feel the heat as tawny Samoan youths prance beneath on mats of fire, and only moments later he may be staring down into the whites of the eyes of a dozen Zulus. He flies from Denmark to Switzerland via Ko rea, Venezuela, Central America, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Polynesia, Taiwan, the Philippines, Jordan, Lebanon, Greece, Malaysia, and most of Africa, with the rest of the world stretching one way down a series of pools to the Bell System, and another way across the Unisphere to the sovereign...
...Catholic textbook survey by scholars at Jesuit-run St. Louis University that listed a number of pejorative references to Jews (and Protestants)-and urged textbook writers to take greater care in discussing other faiths. The Lutheran World Federation's Commission on World Mission at a consultation in Denmark declared that anti-Semitism is "a demonic form of rebellion against the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and a rejection of Jesus the Jew, directed upon his people." And in Florence, European representatives of an international society for Christian-Jewish cooperation met to discuss their latest efforts to combat antiSemitism...
Albert died in 1861, a month after learning that his son, then 20, was having a fling with an actress ("You must not, you dare not be lost," he wrote to Edward). A year later "Bertie" was married to Denmark's Alexandra, "the most beautiful Princess in Europe," and shortly thereafter Queen Victoria in her widow's weeds withdrew into almost total seclusion. Bertie was left with an income of roughly $550,000 a year, no tutors, and a great deal of free time...
Although he will not tell her, he was a collaborator during the Nazi occupation of Denmark, a torturer of resistance workers, and as it turns out, he was the one who tortured her husband to death. Neither knows this until she tells him that her husband's tormentor had an ugly scar...
...consortium already has permission to drill from the coastal states of Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg and Bremen, whose right to grant such permission is now hotly disputed by Bonn. An even thornier question is how to divide mineral rights between Germany and Holland, as well as among Denmark, Norway and Great Britain, all of whom front on the North Sea. Hope that these five nations could deal objectively with the issue looks dim. "It seems to us that countries that in past ages have had only trouble from the sea," said Rotterdam's Algemeen Dagblad, "now should...