Word: swede
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when they touched off an anti-personnel mine left over from 1948 war days. Next day shooting broke out on a nearby hillside where the Israelis had set newcomers to terracing farmland a few yards from the Jordan border. The U.N.'s Lieut. Colonel Erik Helge Thalin, a Swede, and Major Miller Envit, a Dane, jeeped forward to check on the shooting. A Jordan villager, enraged over the recent death of a near relative, opened fire with a Sten gun and seriously wounded Colonel Thalin. Three days later Svend Rasmussen, a Danish radio technician, was killed by an anti...
About To Be Bilged. The Navy's Burke was born a farm boy near Boulder, Colo., with Baseline Lake (now part of the city's reservoir system) the nearest body of water. His father, Oscar Burke,* was a Swede, and his mother. Claire Mokler Burke, was Pennsylvania Dutch. As the eldest of six children, Arleigh worked hard on his father's 170-acre farm. But a country school teacher aroused his interest in the Navy and on June 26, 1919, the sturdy blond Swede from Boulder stepped off the old Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis railway (now defunct...
What the rescuers of the Nottingham's crew take off Boon Island after nearly a month is ten scarecrows who are close to sub-humanity. But Novelist Roberts is getting at something beyond a gruesome record of man's ingenuity and toughness. Look at Captain Dean, and Swede and Neal and Miles, he says. What did they have that brought them so close to nobility, when most men would have cracked? Character and more character. Just as the malingerers and whiners were bound to take it lying down because character is what they never had. Perhaps...
...open the conference this week, the U.N. called on the President of the U.S. In the chair it placed The Netherlands' Eelco van Kleffens, 60, a familiar U.N. figure. But when the conference got under way, the man in charge was a slim and sandy-haired Swede with an easy smile, a sensitive mouth, and eyes the same color as the light blue U.N. flag. He is Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold, Secretary-General of the U.N. and the world's No. 1 international civil servant...
Hammarskjold is a quiet man, the exponent of "quiet diplomacy." Yet in this polished Swede, with his distaste for cocksure statements, lurks a calm, dogmatic conviction: that some day the U.N. will glow in the minds of men because there is no alternative...