Word: tage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have laws permitting sterilization for the mentally ill or defective confined in institutions. In Scandinavia the situation is notably different. Denmark has the most aggressive program of sterilization for persons (whether in institutions or not) believed likely to produce defective offspring, and in London's Eugenics Review Professor Tage Kemp of Copenhagen spells out how the plan works...
...Stockholm, Sweden's popular Radioman Lennart Hyland used his show to promote a "free wives' day." The gimmick: Swedish wives should take a Sunday off and let their husbands do all the housework. After some masculine grumbling, most Swedes (from Prime Minister Tage Erlander down to Mechanic Anders Larsson) pitched in while their wives went off to the movies or on specially run railroad excursions. Grocers reported a tremendous rise in the sale of canned goods...
...students at the University of the Philippines told their zoology professor, Tage U. H. Ellinger, a tall tale. Deep in the Zambales Mountains in Luzon, where they had hidden during the Japanese invasion, were a strange, small people who called themselves Abenlens. Unlike the Negritos of the region, the Pygmies were only 4½ feet tall and were light brown, almost "blond" in complexion...
...aggravated by an event in Stockholm: the opening of a treason trial against seven Swedes who are accused of selling out the secrets of Sweden's entire northern defense system to Soviet espionage agents. On the streets and in the coffeehouses, Swedes muttered their indignation. Prime Minister Tage Erlander summoned Soviet Ambassador Konstantin Rodionov. As he left his own embassy, a crowd of Swedes jeered at the ambassador and spat into the embassy compound. When he walked out of the Foreign Office, he carried away with him two irate Swedish protests...
First they tell you that their heart is really in the right place. As Prime Minister Tage Erlander puts it: "We are politically neutral, but not ideologically." Just the same, Sweden will not become part of any bloc; she will fight only if she is attacked. Thereby-so runs the argument-she is actually doing her neighbors a favor: if Sweden had joined NATO, the Russians would have had a perfect excuse to take Finland. (The Russians don't need an excuse to take Finland...