Word: derfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like the little Dutch boy in Mary Mapes Dodge's children's classic, Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates, Henk van der Grift grew up in Holland dreaming of whizzing his way to glory on the ice. But because the canals around his home town of Breukelen (which gave its name to Brooklyn) seldom froze over, Henk had to do much of his training by taking to the woods and pushing one foot after the other along the ground as though he were skating. Recalls his mother flatly: "He was declared crazy any number of times...
...shaved off another 1.3 sec. on the final lap. With one final burst, he shot across the finish line 17.7 sec. behind Kosichkin's time to become Holland's first world champion in skating since 1905. All Holland prepared to celebrate the victory of Henk van der Grift and his silver skates...
...place constitute a cemetery" under California law. Forest Lawn shoved the bodies of six indigents underground overnight when it won preliminary cemetery permits in both towns. The residents thus had no chance to appeal. To head off Covina opposition, Forest Lawn bought the land last May un der an individual's name, filed the deed in its name last November, the same day that it filed rezoning requests with the Los Angeles Regional Planning Commission...
...significant that two of the six contemporary churches pictured are Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod churches. We have been aptly described as the most conservative in doctrine and the most progressive in architecture. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe notwithstanding, it is not technology that is building these houses of worship, but it is devoted followers of Christ putting technology to work for the kingdom...
...nation's deeper malaise, Economics Minister Jacques Van der Schueren had stern words for Belgium's commoners. "Ten years ago," he said in a nationwide radio address, "Belgium was rich, envied and respected. But this privileged situation carried within itself its own seeds of destruction. Belgians felt they had to live better and better . . . We refused to contemplate our own future...