Word: euroman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Inevitably, things got nasty. While crossing the bow of the British tug Euroman, the Icelandic gunboat Thor was rammed and damaged. The British claim it was an accident; the Icelanders believe it was deliberate. In any case, given the North Atlantic's chronic wintertime high winds and rough waters, such naval games of chicken were bound to produce collisions. A fortnight ago the confrontation grew more serious. While seeking shelter from a gale two miles off Iceland's coast, the unarmed British ocean-going tug Lloydsman was fired on by the Thor. Iceland says the Thor fired...
Composite Euroman...
...growing similarities between Europeans have enabled investigators for the first time to draw a sketch of the composite Euroman. In a study commissioned by the Reader's Digest, 24,000 adult Europeans in 16 countries were surveyed in 1969 by leading research firms on the Continent. The results showed that Euroman is roughly 34, married and has 1.5 children. He is employed by a factory or company that has 50 or more employees. In addition to sizable social benefits, he earns about $50 a week in take-home pay. He quit school at 16, but he speaks one other...
...Euroman's attitudes are more difficult to pin down, naturally, than his possessions. One point of view that appears to be shared by vast numbers of Italians and Frenchmen, Germans and Scandinavians, however, is that their destiny is inextricably linked to that of the rest of Europe...
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