Word: scandinavia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sami: In New York, they make the strongest drinks I've ever tasted. Nowhere in Scandinavia can you find bars that make such strong drinks. I think New Yorkers are heavier drinkers...
...time we landed, the story was all over TV. Talk-show host Rush Limbaugh was railing about "some poor overeducated slob" losing his job for using a "Swedish word," a reference to niggardly's origin in 14th century Scandinavia. Keith Watters, former president of the mostly black National Bar Association, asked in conspiratorial tones, "Do we really know where the Norwegians got the word?" Buckwheat said, "I've got some calls to make...
...club has one member from Finland and one member from Iceland, along with several members who "were born in America, but [Scandinavia] is still part of their heritage," Block says...
Several of the club's members expressed disappointment that Swedish is the only Scandinavian language taught at the College, even though Scandinavia includes Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden...
...makes sense that the solution to the image problem came from the biggest fur producer in the world: Saga Furs of Scandinavia, the joint marketing and public relations organization of the fur farmers of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Scandinavia provides more than half the world's fur pelts. Ten years ago, Saga opened its International Design Center. Since then it has been inviting established designers as well as hot young ones to an all-expenses-paid five-day getaway at its turn-of-the-century thatched mansion in the green hills and yellow fields of Sandbjerg, north of Copenhagen...