Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...playboy, but now he abstains from smoking, drinks nothing stronger than beer. Although born in Bar Harbor, Maine, he considers Philadelphia his home town. As a bomber pilot he executed seven missions, was shot down on the last one (over Peenemünde) and was interned in Sweden, whither he escaped. After the war he returned to show business, understudied Danny Kaye. He got interested in the United World Federalists, but gave them up as a "cocktail-time plaything" and came to Europe for action...
...Sweden's clergy was piously thunderstruck to learn of the U.S. general's prayers. Said the Rev. Hans Ackerhielm, assistant pastor of Stockholm's fashionable Hedvig Eleonora parish: "I have read this with the greatest discomfort." Said Dean Anderberg of Uppsala, chief of Swedish army chaplains: "For that kind of thing I can only use the old-fashioned word 'heresy.' When religion is degraded to serve human desires, it becomes entirely useless...
...time the story had hit the newspapers, Finland was considering restrictions on the sale of Antabus, which is sold over the druggist's counter, originally as a remedy for intestinal worms and the itch (scabies). Since its anti-alcoholism qualities were discovered, Sweden has required a doctor's prescription for its Swedish equivalent, Abstinyl, to discourage dangerous experimenting by pranksters and well-meaning wives. Dr. Stig Hammergen has warned the Stockholm Woman's Medical Society that a mixture of Abstinyl and alcohol can kill people with weak hearts...
...first time in years, Swedish homes for alcoholics this year granted a week-long Christmas furlough for some inmates. They were packed off with Abstinyl tablets in their pockets for self-treatment. Dosage must be carefully regulated by a doctor; the amount needed varies with the patient. Sweden's Temperance Control Department reports best results from doses averaging four half-gram tablets the first day, two the next two days, one tablet a day until all desire for alcohol is lost...
Extenuation. In Jonkb'ping, Sweden, Ole Jonson, convicted of stealing and embezzlement, was only put on probation when he told the court that he did it to get money so he could move away from his mother...