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Word: virtanen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...offered 36 schools; ample television coverage was promised. A Cabinet statement cautioned the heavily anti-Russian country−particularly its youth organizations−that Finnish independence would be jeopardized by even the smallest "pinpricks" that would create irritation and controversy around the festival." Replied Professor of Chemistry A. I. Virtanen, head of the Finnish Academy: "The correct attitude of Finnish youth toward their uninvited guests should be: 'We do not know them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communists: The Uninvited Guests | 8/10/1962 | See Source »

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