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Word: norwegian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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STILL NOT CONVINCED? After hours of exhaustive interviews with zoologists and anthropologists, I have learned that elves do not exist; never have, never will. If you are shocked by that, then hold on: reindeer cannot fly. This was proven in an experiment conducted in a Norwegian fjord in 1908 by the noted Swedish doctor Sven Svensen. The only results were 15 dead reindeer and a mob of angry Lapland herders...

Author: By Ben N. Smith, | Title: Santa No Longer A Secret | 12/17/1985 | See Source »

...passengers had noticed the four Palestinians who had boarded the ship at Genoa. They kept to themselves and did not take part in any shipboard activities. One of the Achille Lauro hostesses later recalled asking the young men their nationality and receiving the improbable and barely intelligible reply, "Norwegian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: The Voyage of The Achille Lauro | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

...that they haven't a clean spot--that is dramatic!" His second wife, Frida, an Austrian journalist, compared marriage to Strindberg to "a death ride over crackling ice and bottomless depths." There is little evidence that his first wife, Siri, a Finnish actress, or his third wife, Harriet, a Norwegian actress, would have disagreed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Obsession Strindberg: a Biographyby Michael Meyer | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

...tons or more, compared with the U.S. fleet, which has dwindled to six. Sailing from Genoa, Tilbury (England) and Rotterdam, the liners offer rates 15% to 20% below those of most Western ships. Travelers give Soviet cruises high marks. A group from Lisieux, France, who sailed the Norwegian fjords on the Leonid Brezhnev in May, was enchanted by everything from crew members, who danced "Russian," to inexpensive vodka, and frog's legs for dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Red Star Rises on the High Seas | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

MARRIED. Liv Ullmann, 46, Norwegian actress and autobiographer (Choices); and Donald Saunders, 50, Boston real estate broker; both for the second time; in Rome, where she has just finished a new film, Let's Hope It's a Girl. The marriage service, held in a Protestant church, followed by two days a private civil ceremony at city hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 23, 1985 | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

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