Word: norwegians
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...President found "a free government that checks and balances its own excesses, and a free economic system that corrects its own errors, given the courage and constructive cooperation of a free and enlightened citizenry." In Stavanger, Norway, at ceremonies commemorating the 150th anniversary of the sailing of the first Norwegian immigrant ship to the U.S., Senator Hubert Humphrey lauded "these pioneers" who "brought with them no riches but skill, perseverance and confidence...
Peer Gynt is lbsen's large-scale rendering of Norwegian myth. Peter Frisch has put toghether a fine production. At the Loeb Mainstage tonight, tomorrow and Saturday...
Ibsen also wrote Peer Gynt to lampoon Norwegian egoism, self-sufficiency (presented as the trolls' motto) and political character, and you can see why almost anyone would be content to glean what meaning he could from the play. But Director Peter Frisch, who seems to want to drive home every nuance, cut the script sufficiently, and Peer Gynt, which runs over three-and-a-half hours, emerges much longer than the dramatic interest warrants...
...Norwegian citizen who lives in Spain and whose mother is from Uruguay, yesterday's match was a rude lesson in shuttle diplomacy. In his most recent outings, Vik had won the Ivy title and finished first...
...blood-soaked land we were passing through. Still, certain places with history caught us in their web so that we experienced more than our seatbelted cocoon. Just beyond Chattanooga was the battlefield of Chickamagua, where my great-great-grandfather was killed in 1863, leading his unit of a Wisconsin Norwegian regiment...