Word: scandinavia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with his Atlantic orientation and his Common Market phobia, is hardly eligible. West Germany's Ludwig Erhard has been forced into a defensive corner by Social Democratic Leader Willy Brandt's initiative on an exchange of speakers with East Germany; Italy and Spain, the Low Countries and Scandinavia are not contenders...
...desert NATO, the Allies refrained from forcing a showdown. After all, from a purely military point of view, even a passive partnership was preferable to French neutrality-which would cut the Western alliance in two, isolate each of its three Mediterranean members from West Germany, Britain, Benelux and Scandinavia...
...computers are concerned," complained the Czech magazine Kulturní Tvorba, "we are still living in primeval times. We are 50 times worse than the U.S., 15 times worse than West Germany and Scandinavia, ten times worse than Britain, France, Holland and other countries...
...concerned, the only possible way for any American to enjoy Europe is as part of the herd. For their first trip, Olson sends his readers on a 39-day Grand Tour of ten countries, and their second can be only to England, Ireland, Scotland and Scandinavia. If they're still with him after that, he recommends a really daring "off the beaten path" tour to Chartres, Biarritz, Saint-Tropez, Rome and Paris...
What is needed, says the A.M.A., is a thermometer that will not cause injury. But no U.S. manufacturer has yet produced a safer thermometer at an economic price. A safer design, used in Scandinavia, has a slender sensing tip, similar to the American, but then broadens out to a flat shank, thick enough to prevent too deep a penetration. The best the A.M.A. can suggest is that nurses and mothers be instructed in how to insert a thermometer correctly, and told never to leave a child or a debilitated patient alone with the thermometer in place...