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The big, shoe-thumping fellow continues as a dark thunderhead to threaten all unrepentant non-Communists with hail and thunder.

Dag Hammarskjold

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Dag Hammarskjold
Age: 55 †
Born: 1905
Born: January 1
Died: 1961
Died: January 1
Diplomat
Economist
Poet
Politician
Writer
Jönköpings stad
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld
Shoes
Threaten
Dark
Shoe
Bigs
Thunder
Continues
Communist
Unrepentant
Communism
Thumping
Fellow
Communists
Fellows
Hail

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