Word: nordic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stockholm's fashionable shopping center, he met Baroness Sigrid ("Siri") Wrangel, an angel with Nordic frosting, looking as sweetly innocent as if caviar would not melt in her mouth. It was love...
With Norway's rejection, the plan collapsed. The three Nordic powers parted in their usual good spirits, agreeing to disagree, and still bound by old and tough ties. Lange's persistent refusal, after months of parleying, had won the admiration of his fellow Scandinavians. "This man has more stamina than a buffalo," sighed a Swede...
Bergman will play the unglamorous part of a Nordic woman trapped in an Italian D.P. camp. The only way she can escape is by marrying a Sicilian fisherman. At his island home she finds the people strange and hostile, the fisherman's life lard and grubby. She tries unsuccessfully to escape, becomes pregnant, attempts suicide...
...unquestionable heroism of these pincer-trapped soldiers is the sugar on Author Plievier's German pill. For, having aroused in every German heart a profound compassion for his glorious dead, he icily proceeds to ask: who caused them to die so horribly, and to what end? How does Nordic supremacy look when more than a quarter of a million of its devotees are hobbling and crawling, half-mad and half-dead, through an icy, foreign wasteland? How does the image of the divine Führer look to his worshipers in the moment when they themselves have "become bridges...
Will Lawther comes from Durham, and is therefore a Geordie (native of northeast England). As such, he would tend to give his aitches the harsh Teutonic guttural overemphasis of his Nordic ancestors. Never by any misadventure would he drop an aspirate. If he must be rendered phonetically (as you so love to do with cockney taxi drivers, who all seem to say "bloody" every fourth word-and, for the sake of accuracy, I'd like to point out that bloody has been superseded since World War II by a four-letter word as yet unprintable), what he said should...