Word: swede
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...persists. According to a theory first propounded by Sociologist Ruby Jo Reeves Kennedy, the U.S. is really a "triple melting pot," with the true cohesion growing within religious groups. An Irish Catholic is more likely to marry another Catholic (Polish, German or Italian) than a Protestant; similarly, a Protestant Swede tends to marry another Protestant (Finn, Dutch, Scotch, English). In religion and in social relations, minorities still resist amalgamation, although even here the lines are not nearly as sharply drawn as they once were. Besides, the separation is largely voluntary, and characterized by an increasingly cheerful appreciation of one another...
Noon Wine is close in feeling to Peckinpah's prizewinning movie, Ride the High Country. A strange, withdrawn, harmonica-playing Swede (Per Oscarsson) arrives at the small Texas spread owned by an ignorant farmer named Thompson (Jason Robards Jr.). The Swede signs on as a handyman, and in the course of three years not only tunes up the farm operations to perfect pitch but slides, in his remote way, into the heart of the family...
...Germany's 29%, Italy's 40%-and Britain's only 18%. For each worker needed to produce a ton of steel in the U.S., three are needed in Britain. In manufacturing, it takes 2.52 Britons to equal the output of one Canadian, 1.89 to equal a Swede's. Yet hourly earnings in British industry grew by 33% in 1960-65-plus another 7% in manufacturing during the first three months of 1966. "More people in Britain pushed up their earnings more steeply for less work than any time since 1960," said the Economist. "Nothing exceeds like...
...Camping next to the Germans is like visiting your mother-in-law," complained one Swede. "All you hear is 'Do this, do that.' " Said a German of nearby British: "You always hear about British reserve. Why don't you ever see it?" The British, of course, were oblivious to criticism. "I love outdoor living," enthused one British caravaner. "It helps you understand other people. And it would be even better if those damn Italians weren't always stopping up the toilets...
Monsoon rains are already pelting South Viet Nam, but U.S. officers are confident that "we'll be able to cope with anything they can throw, rain or shine," as Major General Stanley ("Swede") Larsen, commander of U.S. and Korean ground forces in the Central Highlands, put it. Though the Reds have not mounted a single offensive operation of more than battalion size since Jan. 1, many officers in Saigon expect them to strike in considerable force some time before summer's end, quite possibly at the narrow waist of South Viet Nam in the Central Highlands area. "They...