Word: swede
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even before Indiana University's national basketball champions traveled west for a pair of games with Oregon State, they had heard tall stories about a sophomore named Wade ("Swede") Halbrook -that he wears size 14 shoes, sleeps in specially built 8-ft. beds, and at 7 ft. 3 in. (and 245 Ibs.), is probably the biggest man in college basketball. The stories were all true, but Indiana's basketballers, ranked No. 1 in the country, were not overawed. They had some tall tales to tell about their own Don Schlundt, a 6-ft. 10-in. center...
Turmoil in a Tent. In another tent, a P.W. stood his ground for almost four hours. The Swiss and the Swede kept asking him if he wanted to leave, but the P.W. seemed quite happy to stay. The Communist explainer moved halfway round his table, and threatened the P.W. The Swiss wagged his finger in the explainer's face, and cried, "You shut up. You shut up." The Poles and Czechs shouted at the Swiss, and the Indian shouted in Hindi to the guards. At this moment of turmoil, a black U.S. Chevrolet with three stars on its bumper...
...hardest of all to take has been the board's practice, for about 30 years, of hiring restaurant-haunting alcohol spies. A Swede who dined out never knew whether his innocent-appearing neighbor at the next table might be checking on his drinking. By law, the restaurant could serve a woman precisely 5 centiliters (1.7 oz.) of hard liquor, or a man 7.5 centiliters, up to 3 p.m.. and double that amount after. If a friendly waiter brought the drinker an outsize tot. the snooper would not say a word, but at home that night would send...
...week's end Vishinsky had a chance to play the new peace tune as he likes to play it-cheaply. Dag Hammarskjöld, the neutral Swede, was sworn in as Trygve Lie's successor, vowing to "exercise in all loyalty, discretion and conscience the functions of the Secretary General." Afterwards, diplomats gathered round to welcome the new man and say farewell to the old. Lie and Hammarskjold started down the line, and the eighth man they came to was Andrei Vishinsky, who, for more than three years, has ignored or berated Lie as an "American stooge." This...
...considered -among others-the name of Erik Boheman, Sweden's Ambassador to the U.S. Boheman said that he did not want the job, but his name had been in the air just long enough for Soviet Delegate Valerian Zorin to hint that perhaps Russia might accept a Swede in order to get rid of Norway's Trygve Lie. French Delegate Henri Hoppenot took the cue, submitted the name of Dag Hammarskjöld (see box). So little known was he that State Department officials had to scurry about for a few hours to see if there might...