Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stadium. Out on the bright green turf of the soccer field, Brazil was dribbling to the attack. As they played their way toward the payoff rounds of the World Cup championship, the light-foot Latins had generated an awesome amount of ballyhoo. Now, in the semifinal game against France, Sweden's capital was getting its first chance to see just how good the Brazilian booters really were...
Second-Story Women. The grind began in Vienna in late 1956 when Austria beat Luxembourg 7-0. Almost every month, for the next year and a half, somewhere in the world national teams were playing for the privilege of going to Sweden. There were 53 entrants at the start of the competition and, in some sections, politics eliminated almost as many as defeats did on the playing field. The Afro-Asian section collapsed early, in angry disarray. Nationalist China withdrew rather than play Indonesia, which had defeated Red China. Turkey pulled out, claiming it should have been classed as European...
Once the top 16 teams got to Sweden, they ran into new hazards. Sweden's own team was one of the tournament favorites, and younger Swedish fans, combining patriotism with sophisticated self-interest, gave the visitors a delightfully wearing welcome. The Argentines were met by mobs of pretty blonde Swedish teen-agers eager to test the reputation of the passionate Latins. After too many friendly nights in their hotel and too many embarrassing afternoons on the playing field, the weary Argentines went back to South America thoroughly whipped. They were met by angry home-town fans armed with stones...
...over Sweden factories are going underground. The firm of Bolinder-Munktell, manufacturers of engines, housed itself in a cave shelter shortly after World War II. More important, the Swedes discovered that building underground-in terms of construction and maintenance-often costs less. Airplanes, precision instruments, munitions, radios are also made in below-ground factories; hydroelectric power is generated in stations tucked inside mountains; cavernous hospitals are complete with X-ray rooms, operating theaters, fully equipped wards...
...Sweden's armed forces will go to earth with its citizens. There are underground hangars for jet planes, subterranean sea pens dug out of the sides of rock-walled fjords for destroyers and submarines; barracks, repair shops, fuel dumps and munitions depots all have granite shields...