Word: cura
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secluded hunting estate, the conferees wrestled with the last loose ends of an agreement which had been fashioned in preliminary Java meetings. The stubborn Dutch and fanatic Indonesians had found a middle ground. Indonesia would become an autonomous "full and equal" partner with The Netherlands, Surinam and Curaçao, under the Dutch crown...
...just bumped into each other on a sidewalk." But there was no escape. So for the first time ever, Susan told somebody her life story. It was quite a tale. Her mother, she told Slick, had first drunk herself into a stupor with crème de cacao and curaçao, then ran away with a traveling salesman. Thereupon her father began to lose his wits, finally cut his throat with a razor. Her grandfather was popped into a sanatorium for alcoholics; her uncle still languished in the state penitentiary. The relatives who raised Susan were "a whole gibbering...
...Russian, U.S. and British Quartermaster Corps had worked hard to make the conferees comfortable. U.S. quartermasters were proudest of all of the liquor they had ready for the President to offer his guests: Scotch, gin, bourbon, wines, cognac, even curaçao and crème de menthe...
...Bermuda and all other islands in the West Indies now owned by European nations (the Bahamas, Jamaica, Antigua, Trinidad, Curaçao, Guadeloupe...
...year history the American Bible Society has issued a third of a billion Bibles or portions of the Scriptures. They have gone to over 50 countries, been printed in more than 200 languages or dialects. New last year: an edition in Papiamento, Spanish dialect for Curaçao; in Gbéa for French Equatorial Africa; in Kijita for Tanganyika...