Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steady Yugoslavs, winners of the last European zone playoffs in 1939, became a good bet to repeat next week in the finals against steady Sweden. Other over-the-border tennis...
...runner of promise. Just out of the Swedish Army, he heard that famed Gunder Hägg lived in the same block and volunteered to work out with him. He entered a few races, proved to be a first-rate pacesetter and gradually became known in Sweden as "Hägg's rabbit." One day, the rabbit turned on the dog; Strand was in front of Hägg at the finish line. Paavo Nurmi exclaimed: "The most outstanding runner I have ever seen...
...French, Italian, Austrian and Belgian Socialists had a different position. They foresaw an eventual break with the Communists, but thought the present moment was "premature." Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Holland strung along with the British Labor Party, as they usually do. The Argentine delegate, Nicolás Repetto, hoped a Socialist International might help him fight Perón. A Canadian delegate favored an anti-Communist Socialist International, but he had a worry of his own: "Any future war will be between America and Russia-and we Canadians are between. We will get the atom bombs that miss...
...four singles matches against Great Britain the Frenchmen didn't lose a set. But the whole show looked more like public-park tennis than Cup matches. Whoever wins the European Zone finals-France, Sweden or Yugoslavia-will still have a long way to go for a chance at the Australian cup holders...
...TIME warns Sweden's lepo-ornithol-ogists not to boo too loudly, reminds them that Indiana's fur-fowl is known to lay only sterile eggs...