Word: finlandization
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Jutta Skogberg, a 17-year-old Finn staying with a family in Wellesley, said that Harvard has "enormous prestige" in Finland. "I thought Harvard students would be very studious and not interested in much else, but they're really fun, outgoing, partying people," she added...
...meters was an intricately plotted race starring two of the world's best-known distance runners: Yifter, who missed the 1976 Games because of the African boycott, and Lasse Viren, 31, of Finland, winner of both the 5,000 and 10,000 in 1972 and 1976. Yifter, as it turned out, had a better supporting cast...
...Ethiopian rabbits made more mischief in the 5,000, taking runs at anyone with the temerity to challenge their flagship. The most elegant Alphonse and Gaston routine took place on the final backstretch when Ethiopian Mohammad Kedir, then second behind Kaarlo Maaninka of Finland, swerved to the outside so that the Shifter could rocket through for his second gold. Poor Kedir got tangled up with the pack, lost a shoe and finished dead last...
...clusters. Literary material is especially scrutinized ... books opened and the officials settle down to read, often one looking over the other's shoulder, searching for key words to pop out, since their ability to read English is limited. A copy of Edmund Wilson's To the Finland Station, with its uncompromising portrait of Lenin, was flipped through without incident, but a yellow legal pad on which I had written "KGB -neat shoes"-a reference to being able to spot a secret-service agent by his spruced-up footwear-caused a considerable stir. The officials studied...
...Western Europe has hesitated to retaliate against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan by imposing truly painful measures on Moscow, like the embargo of high technology exports. Some see this reluctance to offend the Soviets as the start of Finlandization, a term derived from the fact that Finland is so thoroughly intimidated by the neighboring Soviets that it dares take no action that might offend them. In the opinion of Raymond Aron, a leading French political analyst, the process has already begun in Europe. Says Aron: "Finlandization starts in the mind. If a nation acts powerless and terrified, that's called...