Word: zuricher
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...rest of the world has never really been good enough for the Swiss, who for 300 years have looked down their Alpine noses at the other people on earth. Until now, the foreign civil servants at Geneva's Palais des Nations, the businessmen taking tax shelter in Zurich and Zug, and the hordes of common laborers from Italy and Spain have been grudgingly tolerated. No more. With 15% of the nation's 5.9 million people holding foreign passports, the sensitive Swiss have suddenly come down with an acute case of xenophobia...
...born in Pontnewynydd, Wales, worked as a secretary for four years in the local foundry before winning a scholarship in 1956 to London's Royal College of Music. She was hired by the Zurich Opera in 1962 as a mezzo, but soon found she couldn't restrain herself from "singing top Cs and trilling." Zurich Conductor Nello Santi listened and forthwith pronounced her a soprano...
...born in Helsingfors, Finland, and received the Ph.D. from the University of Helsingfors in 1930. He has been professor of Mathematics at Harvard since 1946 and earlier taught at Helsingfors and the University of Zurich. Professor Ahlfors is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences and holds an honorary LL.D, from Boston College. He lives with his wife and daughter in Winchester...
With the zeal of a Savonarola, Zwingli tried to legislate Zurich into a facsimile of God's kingdom on earth. The town council passed stern laws against adultery and fornication and made attendance at Sunday services compulsory. But Zurich was an ideal community only for those who saw things Zwingli's way. Catholics were fined and were forbidden to run for elective offices, and Zwingli approved exile and execution for Anabaptist heretics who wanted a more radical reformation than he allowed...