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Word: pasvik (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Usage:

...started barking." What Sotkajarvi apparently saw in the early afternoon of Dec. 28 was a runaway cruise missile fired from either a submarine or a ship during Soviet naval maneuvers in the Barents Sea, northeast of the Scandinavian Peninsula. Norwegian radar tracked the supersonic object as it crossed the Pasvik River on the Soviet-Norwegian border; it headed southwest toward Lake Inari in Finland, where it disappeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scandinavia Wayward Missile | 1/14/1985 | See Source »

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