Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Down the coast of Europe it screamed last week, leaving a trail of death and disaster in its wake. Raging seas and roaring winds that reached a velocity of 177 m.p.h. blitzed dikes, flooded cities, inundated farm land, and capsized ships from Denmark to the British Isles. So strong were the gales at Britain's Catterick racetrack that gusts blew race horses off their legs and sent their jockeys flying...
...first installment, Fox alone has taken six years of work. To underpin his imagination, Hughes read through the entire Nürnberg trial transcript, traveled to Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark and Poland to interview "dozens" of people who knew Hitler personally in the Munich days-including a boy who used to call Hitler "Uncle Dolph." His prize find: an old newspaper file containing the diary of a participant in the 1923 Munich putsch...
During the past four years--some 20,000 years later--a modern band of hunters has been camping at the old Stone Age site--a team of archaeologists, paleontologists, and geologists from Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, India, Italy, and the United States, and about 40 graduate students...
...Current members: Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, West Germany. This year Britain also applied for membership, with Denmark and Norway planning to follow...
SHADOWS ON THE GRASS, by Isak Dinesen. The author, who is Denmark's finest writer and one of the world's best, writes a dry, elegiac reminiscence of the years she spent from 1921 to 1931 managing a coffee plantation in Kenya. Miss Dinesen's principal theme is the feudal harmony of white master and black servant, making the book seem removed by centuries, not decades, from the present...