Word: scandinavia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defined in terms of income or power, but poverty as a simple, unchanging fact of life. Told by a Norwegian woman of eighty, and compiled by journalist Dagfinn Gronoset, this narrative speaks with misleading ease of the unbelievable suffering and humiliation that Anna endured in the mountain farmlands of Scandinavia...
Best Practitioners. In short, a good part of the world now recognizes that Western European designers are the very best practitioners of the art. Today's tableware from Scandinavia, watches from Switzerland, furniture and automobiles from Italy and clothing from France are, in the opinion of many authorities, the pre-eminent and handsomest products in their fields (see color pages...
...leading designers currently is Acton Bjorn, 64, who heads his own firm and has designed such non-hauteur items as a beer bottle for the Moote Cordonnier brewery in France, an electric iron for General Electric, even a special lightweight toilet seat for use in hospitals throughout Scandinavia...
...Fort Leavenworth, Kans., while waiting for something to happen, but much of this sort of foolishness has been eliminated. Gone are the endless orientation lectures that used to provide an opportunity for a recruit to catch up on sleep while some clod stood before a map and explained where Scandinavia was as he pointed to the Iberian peninsula. By and large, gone too are the arrogant sergeants and junior officers who ordered a trainee to do humiliating things just to show off their authority...
...outer edge of the vortex twists and bends, like the bottom of a large, swirling skirt. In the U.S. Far West, for instance, the winds bring down cold, dry Arctic air; thus winters there have been unusually bitter. Conversely, in such normally chilly regions as New England and Scandinavia, winters have been uncharacteristically warm because the vortex has pulled up warm air from the south. At times, great air masses of differing temperature and humidity can collide, creating unusually violent storms, like last spring's tornadoes in the Midwest...