Word: fjord
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Admiral Raeder was putting pressure on Germany's fitting up of Oslo Fjord, Bergen and Trondheim as submarine bases, and on the laying down of new tonnage-merchant as well as naval- in Norse and Danish shipyards...
...left of Norway last week, by proclamation to his captive people. He was somewhere above the Arctic Circle, in Harstad, Tromso or Hammerfest, far north of Narvik, where a British destroyer carried him last fortnight when he narrowly escaped from Molde at the mouth of bomb-battered Romsdal Fjord below Trondheim...
...Bull") Dietl, entrenched on towering Rombak Heights southeast of the town. Through the snow swirls, shielded more than blinded, came steady streams of Nazi planes to drop food, munitions, more men to the beleaguered invaders. They revived and reinforced a second Nazi contingent on the north side of Rombak Fjord, at Elvegardsmoen. They bombed Allied warships which prowled off the town to shell the heights, and added mines to the battle wreckage in Narvik harbor which prevented those ships from closing in. They even managed to land and take off on one glacier-like mountaintop...
Their plan was, with the Norse troops working on lower levels, to complete a ring around Narvik, then press westward until they drove the Nazis down from the heights to the fjord, where the warships could polish them...
Probably the common conception of Sibelius as half-man half-fjord is shaped also by the peculiar type of structure of his symphonies. A single movement in any eighteenth or nineteenth-century symphony followed a certain general pattern--the main theme was stated at the outset, in all its length and loveliness, then in succeeding measures was broken down and developed. Sibelius uses an exactly opposite approach. He takes fragments of theme, broken bits of melody, and toys with them for a while. He juggles them from instrument to instrument, combining them in a variety of ways. Gradually they...