Word: scandinavia
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...previously served as gateways to Europe (see map). He granted TWA the right to fly nonstop to Europe from Pittsburgh, Denver, St. Louis, Cleveland, Minneapolis-St. Paul and Kansas City, Mo. Northwest Airlines, which had no flights to Europe, picked up unused Pan Am rights to fly to Scandinavia from several cities across the nation. Delta Air Lines, which until now has been primarily a domestic carrier with no European routes, got the right to fly from Atlanta, its head quarters, to London; Miami-based National Airlines can add service from New Orleans and Tampa to its existing Miami-London...
...does not oxidize and is incorruptible -survived these ravages. No mainstream of civilization left less behind it than this early climax of Irish culture, which took place between the 6th and 9th centuries A.D. The Irish tradition absorbed the Vikings; it digested the animal motifs and decorative knotwork of Scandinavia; but it could not survive the English. The English Renaissance meant the Irish decadence...
...high frequency of redheads in Ireland and Scandinavia has helped determine world history with their temperament and adventurousness, think what potentialities lie in a well-organized international of redheads...
...least, Soviet muscle flexing has produced more defiance than fear among NATO'S two members in Scandinavia. As confidence in détente has waned, support for increased defense expenditures has risen. "People have seen the Soviets and their friends smile on the public stage, while relentlessly pushing ahead militarily," says a Danish Foreign Ministry official. "They can see some of it themselves by just riding down to the coast on their bikes." One result is that the often criticized and sometimes creaking NATO alliance rarely has been more appreciated among Norwegians and Danes than it is today...
...desperately to shut off the flow, oil spewed from a blown-out well in the Norwegian Ekofisk concession at a rate of some 4,000 tons a day. The spill drifted generally eastward in a slimy slick 32 kilometers (20 miles) long that not only threatened the coasts of Scandinavia but also seemed likely to affect the future of the offshore oil program...