Word: lindens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quiet, bloodless, but uniformly effective revolution is fomenting on the corner of Linden and Mt. Auburn Sts. At its start, a few students lost their heads; after almost a year, all are able to hold them up again...
Following their regimen, the Swedes ate nothing for four hours before the meet. Explained Coach Erik Linden, 46, known as the father of modern Swedish gymnastics: "A starving dog hunts better." Linden believes that a good gymnast "must work harder than a ballet dancer, though he must have the same natural gifts-a supple body, good balance and above all a sense of rytm [rhythm]." The hungry Swedes, full of rytm, won five of the six events. Star of the show: Swedish Cham pion Borje Stattin, 23, a typographer by trade...
Swedish Coach Linden, after watching Browning, went over to Coach Pond and said: "Fabulous! I congratulate you." Then the missionaries from Sweden, who have yet to lose a meet in the U.S., packed up to carry the calisthenic word to points as far south as Florida...
Unter den Linden was alive with demonstrators. Snatches of the Internationale seeped into the Wilhelmstrasse chancellery, where Socialist Friedrich Ebert, shaky head of a shaky government, sat wondering if he was another Kerensky doomed to fall before his country's Communists. It was Nov. 9, 1918. Shipwrecked in the field, rudderless at home, Germany was drifting into anarchy...
Beetle-browed Cheddi Jagan, 35. had flown to Britain, confidently expecting a bonanza of Socialist sympathy. With him, flashing the three-fingered salute of the P.P.P.. was his Minister of Education; an Oxford-educated Negro named Linden Forbes Burnham. The pair were met at London Airport by a bunch of British Communists, but before they could mount a soapbox, Scotland Yard whisked them away to a private office on the Opposition side of the House of Commons. Clement Attlee, whose government had prepared the way for self-government in Guiana, had urgent questions to ask. He had been disturbed...