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Word: nnvin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1946-1946
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Usage:

...villages, killing cattle and even attacking humans. Declared Dr. Nils Dahlbeck, a Swedish bear expert: "They are reclaiming their former habitat. Also, they find populated areas more profitable for variety in diet." Chief victims were the Lapps who experimented for centuries with anti-bear measures. Sample: put brännvin (brandy) under juniper bushes and get the bears drunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Intrusiveness | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

...South it was the rockets, and more than brännvin was needed to counteract them. Since last May, swarms of spool-shaped, silent missiles with fiery tails have been zooming over Swedish territory at 875 m.p.h. (500-odd reports described some as slower and cigar-shaped, others as square and red-bottomed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Intrusiveness | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

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