Word: elverum
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Parliament had appointed three negotiators to treat with the invaders when a staff officer rushed in shouting: "The Germans are coming!" In panic, the Royal Government of Norway again took flight, to Elverum higher up in the mountains, then to Nybergsund. Nazi planes, spewing slugs and incendiary bombs, followed wherever they went, razed these villages. Once the King had to hide in the woods, fling himself into the snow, as a killer pilot dived so low it seemed he recognized royal quarry...