Word: sisu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sire & Sisu. Saarinen credits his natural competitiveness partly to his Finnish sisu* and the example of his hardworking, hard-playing father. Eliel Saarinen was Finland's No. 1 architect (the Helsinki railroad station and National Museum) and town planner (Helsinki, and Canberra, Australia). He set up headquarters in a romantic, rustic, 38-room retreat which he and his partners built overlooking Hvitträsk (White Lake), 18 miles outside Helsinki. After he married a sister of one of his partners, Sculptress Loja Gesellius, they turned it into a center of crafts and architecture. Among the stream of visitors...
Tribute to Sisu...
Your July 21 "Sisu" was superbly done. I have read few articles that have presented with such excellency the spirit of the Finnish people and the obstacles they have had to surmount because they live under the shadow of the historical Russian bully . . . What all of us, from the Thuringian Forest to Sheboygan, must realize is that to survive we need, along with armor, A-bombs and valuta, sisu...
...white-haired man could barely contain himself yesterday afternoon. "Boy oh boy, those follows showed real sisu, boy oh boy." And that was about all he could...
...Jaakko Mikkola and sisu is Finnish for "guts." Mikkola's excitement came from the results of yesterday's all-University cross country meet...