Word: zeitung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Belleville (Ont.) MacFarlands played so rough that they drew boos, as they had through much of a month-long pre-tournament tour. The MacFarlands needed police protection in Stockholm. In Finland they were pelted with snowballs, accused of being a "hooligan gang." In West Germany, Hamburg's Bild-Zeitung cried that the MacFarlands played "like a bunch of hoodlums . . . ramming down everything that came in their way." Countered MacFarland Assistant Manager Billy Reay: "We are just playing Canadian-style hockey, and European fans are not used...
...feminist rallies, no raised voices. Even the potent Frauenverein, the women's organization responsible for the lack of alcohol and night life in Zurich, only went as far as to say that it was "not against" women's voting. The liberal newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung gingerly suggested that chaos might not inevitably follow female suffrage since "the character of the Swiss woman does not point to extravagance...
Among the prosperous Swiss, too, "wait-and-see has replaced the boom mentality," reports the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, which forecast a 15% drop in industrial building projects for this year...
...fans churned through Stockholm's streets and stirred up their share of excitement. Arrogant West Germans flashed their money in local bistros, drank too much, drove their sleek Mercedes cars too fast, even earned a rebuke from one of their own papers, Munich's Süddeutsche Zeitung: "We are scared of you ladies and gentlemen-even more in the case of victory than the case of defeat." To the paper's relief, Sweden beat the Germans...
...atom-free zone in Europe." Next week the committee called "Fight Against Atomic Death," composed of Socialists and Evangelical churchmen, will make its public debut with a mass rally in Frankfurt. As in Britain, the Florence bomb proved a windfall to the cause, and Hamburg's Bild-Zeitung nervously asked whether American planes were flying A-bombs over West Germany. The question got a big play-far bigger than the U.S. Air Force's answer...