Word: norwegians
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...story of Norway since the conquest shows that while a free democracy may be slow to realize its danger, it can be heroic when aroused. At home, the Norwegian people have silently resisted the invaders' will with grim determination. Abroad, Norwegian ships and Norwegian men have rallied to the cause of the United Nations...
...Your Royal Highness, as a token of the admiration and friendship of the American people toward your country and her Navy, I ask you to receive this ship. . . . May this ship long keep the seas in the battle for liberty. May the day come when she will carry the Norwegian flag into a home port in a free Norway...
...stars & stripes fluttered down from the stern of the PC-467; the U.S. crew marched briskly off. To their places stepped a new crew of Norwegians in neat, blue-trimmed white uniforms. The Navy band struck up the Norwegian national anthem, Ja, Vi Elsker Dette Landet (Yes, We Love This Land of Ours). Sailors hoisted the blue cross of Norway, pulled a bunting from the ship's new name board: King Haakon...
...ships they were building. One of his firm beliefs was the necessity of multiple compartmentation and automatic sliding doors in bulkheads to make ships as unsinkable as was humanly possible. He was deeply impressed by the tragedy of the Empress of Ireland, which had collided with a Norwegian collier in 1914 and with water pouring into her hold had capsized. He thought such accidents need...
...anarchists hanged after the Haymarket riots,* and who chiefly wrote of simple peasant lives, had ranged himself beside the Gestapo. To the big, white country house which success had brought him, after harsh years of poverty, winds bring the cool fragrance of sea and kelp, of grass and Norwegian earth. Outside the maples whisper. But in the house, now crammed with a painful store of books, the man who always loved solitude had won it, at last, in bitter measure...