Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pronounce all that, read the umlauts as in Norwegian, and bite the "i" and short "a" sounds and the terminal "ahs" as in Nord-Deutsch...
...white tropical suit, in Tel Aviv a grey bemedaled uniform. He also brought considerable Red Cross experience as an intermediary between belligerents. In World War II he had arranged an exchange of disabled German and British prisoners of war, later persuaded the Nazis to send some 15,000 Norwegian and Danish hostages to Sweden...
Paris and the rive gauche seem to be a universal objective among the travelers, but they're going all over. One of today's graduates will be climbing the Swiss Alps within a few weeks; another will be exploring the Norwegian fjords; and a third intends to wander among the cypress trees of Van Gogh's Arles...
Next day, reported Hewitson, he read in an Oslo paper: "Mr. Hewitson complained that during the late war many Norwegian refugees had left illegitimate children in northeastern England...
...Speak English. Born in Wisconsin (1857), of Norwegian farm parents, Veblen was fluent in Norwegian, German, Greek and Latin when he entered college -but knew scarcely any English. Learning it from academic texts, he emerged with a prose which today seems like a humorous man's academic parody of academic writing...