Word: amsterdam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...colonies since the 17th century. Dutchmen gained possession of the islands by driving out the Spaniards, who didn't even put up a fight. When the Dutch also tried to push the British out of the part of Guiana now called Surinam, the British countered by seizing New Amsterdam (Manhattan). Later, in the 1667 Peace of Breda, the Dutch traded off New Amsterdam (bought from the Indians for $24) for 55,000 square miles in Guiana...
...Canadian Pacific Airlines has applied for a Vancouver to Amsterdam route by way of the Arctic...
Soviet "cultural" ambassadors, once cloistered at home, are now sent abroad in clusters. In recent months Russia has sent cancer specialists to Brazil, orientalists to Britain, horticulturists and oceanographers to Paris, demographers and geophysicists to Rome, mathematicians and chemists to Amsterdam, philosophers to Switzerland, ophthalmologists to Canada, philatelists to India. Last week two Soviet scientists suddenly appeared in Manhattan for the closing days of Columbia University's Bicentennial...
Soviet chess teams have competed in Amsterdam and Argentina, Soviet basketball teams in Egypt and Syria, Soviet crews in The Hague and on the Thames. Soviet trackmen and robust Soviet women athletes performed before packed stands at London's White City Stadium and overwhelmed Britain's best...
Backstage at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week, 101 musicians in evening clothes puffed nervously at their cigarettes and filled the air with the Dutch language. They were the famed Amsterdam Concertgebouw (almost rhymes with dessert-'n'-how) Orchestra, launching their first U.S. tour. The thought of being in Carnegie Hall, where most of the world's finest orchestras have been heard, awed many of the players. They need not have worried. From the moment Conductor Eduard van Beinum quieted the rustling audience with a masterful glance, it was apparent this would be a concert...