Word: breda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...Nothing. 32. Breda and Frank could not complete the fairy tale; and so ended the romance that began: 1. In a little theater off Union Square...
...years ago, Breda had found Frank's name and lonely appeal for friendship, bottled, on the beach near her cow pasture. Frank had tossed it overboard from a troopship. Ever since then, they had corresponded, and then Frank followed his heart and his aspirin bottle to Kerry. The press on both sides of the Atlantic tried to fan the romance into flame. Back in the U.S. last week, Frank suggested that the press had tried too hard. Said Frank: "The papers said she swam out to get my bottle when she really found it on the shore...
Other reporters brazenly asked her if she was going to marry Frank. After that, said Frank, "she got to be more shy." Frank seldom got to see her alone at all. When Frank left after two weeks, Breda was not even there to bid him goodbye. She was in the fields of her beloved farm. "If God had wanted us to be married," mused Frank Hayostek, "that's how it would be. The way it happened, maybe God tried to tell me something I don't yet understand...
...There is no romance and there will be no wedding," said Breda. ". . . We will remain good pen pals." Said Frank: "That's right...