Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...party lasted until 2 a.m., and the walls of Oslo's 13th Century Akershus Fortress reverberated with laughter and deep-throated Scandinavian singing. The guests -97 ministers, generals, diplomats and politicians of Sweden, Denmark and Norway-toasted each other and their countries. Gay as any was the host, Norway's Foreign Minister Halvard Lange. Yet in his pocket crackled a crisp piece of paper, a note from Soviet Russia. The Soviet ambassador had delivered it just as Lange was leaving for the state dinner...
Like bouquets at the opening night of a smash hit, de facto recognitions showered down on the new, muscle-flexing state of Israel. They came from France, the Benelux countries, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland.* Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland promised action soon. Most important of all, recognition was announced by Great Britain...
...through. Before the two-mile race, it struck up the Belgian national anthem-for balding, ruddy-faced Gaston Reiff, Olympic 5,000-meter record holder. It was a jockeying race from the start: first, Philadelphia's Curt Stone took the lead, then FBI man Fred Wilt, then Sweden's Erik Ahlden, then Reiff, then Stone, then Reiff. The Belgian, running with a choppy, high-knee action and occasionally dropping his arms to rest, fought off three challengers in the last quarter mile, finished in a blazing 8:56.1. It was the fastest indoor double mile since Greg Rice...
...have just sent your article, "Patton Talking," to a friend in Uppsala, Sweden, asking him to show it to the clergy there . . . The sacrilegious story . . . was pure fiction...
...detail, the State Department spoke plainly and firmly. The U.S. wanted as many anti-Communist European nations as possible to join the alliance and was prepared to work with those who did. But some prospective members-e.g., Portugal, Eire, Iceland-so far were uncommitted. And Sweden hoped to get arms from the U.S. for a Scandinavian alliance with Denmark and Norway without joining the North Atlantic Alliance. For Sweden's benefit, the State Department pointedly announced...