Word: swede
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cairo early last week, Hammarskjold began to make it clear that, according to his lights, the prime U.N. objective in the Middle East was to restore the situation that existed before the fighting started in Egypt. Reporting to the U.N. Advisory Committee on his conversations with Nasser, the quiet Swede indicated that he had freely accepted two fundamental Egyptian positions: 1) UNEF must withdraw from the Suez Canal Zone as soon as British and French troops leave Egypt; 2) repairs to the canal must await the Anglo-French withdrawal...
Talks were given by N. V. (Swede) Nelson '18, Massachusetts Chairman, Hall of Fame; George E. Little, Executive Secretary, Hall of Fame; and E. W. (Bill) Cunningham, National Chairman, Honors Court and Boston Herald columnist, but it was an unscheduled speech by former Congressman Hamilton Fish that drew the most attention...
Such an accident in the heart is extremely rare. Heretofore, it has nearly always proved fatal. Surgeons considered two operations for stitching up the ruptured valve, decided against them as offering no real hope of success. Then a visiting Swede. Dr. Hans Erik Hanson, suggested plugging the tunnel with a plastic sponge shaped like a long-stemmed golf tee. That was in June...
Until last fortnight there had been many incidents but no serious outbreaks on Israel's borders since U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold won his cease-fire last April. At that point, however, Hammarskjold, the usually quiet Swede, felt impelled to make a loud protest. He announced that he would demand that the Jordan government "punish the transgressors" who killed four Israeli bus passengers a few nights earlier. He had no sooner fired off his warning shot than another flare-up occurred on Israel's touchier border with Egypt...
...masterly" presentation, said Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd. Even Foreign Minister Osten Unden of neutral Sweden spoke up to endorse Dulles' speech, moving one veteran conferencegoer to remark: "Unden is the first Swede to know what side he is on since Charles...