Word: sukselainen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five o'clock one afternoon last week, two stocky figures in ill-fitting topcoats and battered felt hats stepped out of a shabby green railway coach onto the red-carpeted platform of Helsinki Station. After an exchange of platitudes with Finnish Premier V. J. Sukselainen, resplendent in top hat and cutaway, the elder of the two visitors shouted out a greeting to a Finnish army honor guard. Like well-drilled children in an old-fashioned schoolroom, the soldiers chorused back: "Hyvaapaivaa, Herra Paaminesteri-Good day, Mr. Prime Minister." For the first time since their visit to Britain more than...
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