Word: norsemen
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...better traitor than terrorist, Major Vidkun Quisling has been a four-star flop as Nazi Gauleiter of the country he betrayed. Tough-fibred Norwegians, though defeated, have refused to be conquered. The Norsemen's passive resistance has included sabotage of power plants, attacks on individual Nazis, stealing any Nazi weapons left unguarded. Secret anti-Nazi organizations have flourished and have smuggled in money from sympathetic Sweden, arms from Britain...
...back coaching at Pillsbury Academy. As head coach at Tulane, he made the Green Wall surf that roared over the U.S.A. every fall. When he returned to Minneapolis to coach the Gophers in part his problem was to turn powerful Norsemen thinkers on the field. Graying, quiet, Bernie Bierman does not remember a time his life wasn't certain around football, except possible his first six years in Springfield, Minn., before he had been taught to distinguish a football from a rattle...
...long is it since Swedes have been defined as Norsemen? (TIME...
Nine years later he started his rich career in Norse scholarship at the University of Wisconsin. His first book, published in 1874, had as its thesis argument that America was not discovered Columbus. Since then he has staunchly added to claim of discovery by the Norsemen. For four years he was minister to Denmark...
...Norsemen did not do it for love. By admiralty law salvagers are entitled to a sum fixed by an admiralty judge. Papers filed in a suit to collect such a sum are called by sea-lawyers a "libel" (Latin: libellus, a little book). To get their money the owners of the Norwold filed a libel attaching the Arminda and her cargo. Judge Cochran ruled last week that since the Arminda is officially a warship belonging to a nation friendly to the U. S., the Norsemen could not libel the ship herself. He suggested that they file separate papers against...