Word: antwerp
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...Belgium, another great area-homeland to some 3,000,000-was swept by floods. In Ostend, one of the cities worst hit, the wind tore a baby from the arms of a woman struggling to escape and tossed the child into swirling water in the street to drown. In Antwerp, 120 yds. of docks crumpled into the Scheldt estuary...
Neither his wife nor his son nor his employers knew what dreams whirled in the head of Maxime Formartin. Perhaps-unlike Thurber's elaborately dreaming Walter Mitty-Maxime himself did know. He was a lowly handyman, chauffeur and clerk for the firm of A. Freyman & Van Loo, Antwerp shippers. Long years of faithful service had brought him one occasional pleasure and privilege: going to the bank to draw some of the firm's money for import duties...
...Britons know that this is a trap, but there are plenty of people (notably Aneurin Sevan's followers) who are willing to listen. It is the same in the rest of Western Europe, where growing islands of unemployment have appeared in recent months. Owners of processing plants in Antwerp, fisheries in Trondheim, boiler works in Lille, olive groves in Tuscany, all cocked an ear to Moscow. In West Germany's Bundestag, the Foreign Affairs Committee demanded an end of curbs on trade with the East "as far as security permits...
...three centuries after his death Bruegel was considered a vulgarian and a boor, almost beneath the notice of refined art lovers. He painted the world around 16th Century Antwerp just as he saw it, with a sharp reporter's eye for detail. He drew with the assurance (though not the delicacy) of DÜrer, and the informal air of his most complex pictures conceals a master-composer's iron hand. Love of life-the smooth along with the rough-was the driving force in his work; he scorned artiness and sentimentality...
Born in Berlin in 1918, Wolpe (pronounced Volpay) grew up in Paris and was made stateless in 1934 when the Nazis revoked the citizenship of all German Jews living outside the Reich. He went to work as a coal miner at nineteen and later got a job on an Antwerp pier...