Word: dourest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the bustle and night life of the big cities, The Netherlands is still dotted with some of the world's dourest Calvinist communities. Among its grimmest is the former islet of Urk (pop. 5,500), a fishing village on the Zuider Zee. On Sundays, Urkers still separate their hens from the roosters, turn their paintings to the wall, read only one book (the Bible), take only one processional walk (to church). Doing anything else is sinful. For years life in Urk was pretty routine, and the town constable's daily report invariably read: "Nothing has happened." That...
...aggressively misanthropic 24-year-old sergeant, and the dourest of Scots, Todd moves into a ward of recovering wounded and immediately gets the doting treatment of a popularity contest winner. What he does not know, and what his wardmates do know, is that he has only a few weeks to live. Hotly spurned and colorfully insulted, his fellow patients- an American, an Australian, a New Zealander, an Englishman and an African Basuto-find their sympathy giving way to acute dislike...