Word: scandinavian
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...five Great Lakes, Michigan is a self-contained empire. Imperially big, rich and varied, it is the land where Hiawatha played, where the French voyageurs sailed even before the Plymouth colony was founded, where conservative Germans settled on the smiling farmlands of the fertile south, and the Scandinavian Paul Bunyans came to cut the timber and mine the ore of the rugged north. It was here that Henry Ford, messiah of the machine, swung the U.S. mass-production revolution on his assembly lines and broke the bonds of the workingman's poverty by instituting the $5 eight-hour...
North Dakota: Scandinavian, Lutheran, Republican...
When Britain set out to counter the six-nation European Common Market with a European free-trade area of its own-knitting together the Scandinavian countries, Portugal, Switzerland and Austria-Finland badly wanted to join to make this Outer Seven an Outer Eight. But President Urho Kekkonen, a longtime neutralist who stoutly insists that Finland's future must be based on Soviet-Finnish "friendship," said nothing doing. Russia, Kekkonen argued, would be displeased if Finland participated in a non-Communist trade bloc...
...daily Lien Ho Jih Pao suspected that "Senator Kennedy is not mature on the China problem." Many Turks seemed to agree with an Ankara businessman who said: "Nixon was willing to stand up to the Russians, but we don't know anything about Kennedy." In Britain and the Scandinavian countries, where nostalgia for Adlai Stevenson remains high, much sentiment favored the Democrats. They did not know Kennedy, but had lingering doubts about Nixon...
...Discussing his great distaste for socialism, Ike made a remark that soon had the wires in Scandinavian countries blazing with fury. He spoke of "the experiment of almost complete paternalism in a very friendly European country [with] a tremendous record for socialistic operation . . . The record shows that their rate of suicide has gone up almost unbelievably . . . they now have more than twice our rate. Drunkenness has gone up. Lack of ambition is discernible on all sides." The country, though Ike did not mention it, was Sweden. Actually, France has the highest rate of alcoholism in the world...