Word: luxembourger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...county-sized Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (pop. 315,000; area, 1,000 sq. mi.) is the smallest member of NATO, of the European Common Market and of the United Nations. But in some matters, little Luxembourg looms big. It is the tenth largest steel-producing country in the world; its citizens are the most prosperous in Europe, and so fond of its own frothy beer and heavy dumplings that the Germans market corsets in Luxembourg that are outsized even by German standards. And, according to a U.N. report, Luxembourg's drivers have the highest automobile accident rate...
...effect was no side issue in Teheran. In a misconceived maneuver during negotiations for Iran's new bilateral agreement with the U.S., the Shah had invited his Soviet neighbors to make him a counteroffer-and then sent them away emptyhanded. "Iran treated us as if we were Luxembourg," huffed Soviet Ambassador Nikolai Pegov. Khrushchev centered all his abuse on the Shah and the Shah alone. "He fears not us but his own people," roared Nikita. "He will not succeed by a bilateral pact or even a quinquelateral pact in saving his rotten throne from the fate of the rotten...
...recession created a glut in European coal-the surplus now stands at 26 million tons, with 7,000,000 in Belgium alone. The formation of the six-nation European Coal and Steel Community-creating a common market in these products in France, Italy, West Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg-finally forced the government's hand...
...move started by a Radio Luxembourg announcer, hundreds of thousands of "Thank you, Mr. President" telegrams have been pouring into Coty's office in affectionate tribute to a sturdy and kindly personage...
Ringing phrases about defending Berlin made the headlines from NATO's Ministerial Council meeting in Paris last week. "We cannot abandon the 2,500,000 people of West Berlin," said NATO Secretary General Paul-Henri Spaak, "without preparing the way for surrender in Luxembourg, Denmark, Norway, Belgium and all the way across Europe...