Word: dyed
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...symbolized by the life of redheaded Pier Frixen and his wife, Nertha. Pier took over his father's farm in 1918. But he quarreled with the old man about marrying silver-blonde Nertha, who was half Norwegian. His father wanted Pier to marry a Frisian girl. "Soan, dy faem is net goed genoch [Son, that maiden is not good enough]," he said. Pier raged at the old man's nonsense about Ald Fryslan on the North Sea shore. So his father went out to brood, looking across the valley at the Hills of the Lord which...
Please don't hide behind the skirts of "optional spelling,"" because the only permissible variations are 1) substitution for euphony of s for the fifth pair of Is (letters 40 and 41); and 2) ti or ty for dy (letters...
...this week the northern flank appeared to have been stabilized, at least temporarily. Heavy battles raged for the wedges the Americans had been able to hold in the Monschau-Malmédy-Stavelot area and to the west of Saint-Vith. But they were perilous triangular salients. Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges' First Army had apparently stopped the spearhead closest to Liège, focal point of U.S. supplies...
...Saint-Vith one unit, although bypassed and terribly mauled, held like a fortress for six days. In the Stavelot and Malmédy sectors the Americans had taken heavy attrition, had knocked out more than 200 tanks. They had successfully prevented the Germans from exploiting their surprise...
...Paris by Christmas." Heaviest German thrust was delivered in the heart of the Ardennes, east of Malmédy, where they overran the U.S. forward positions entirely, advanced five miles into Belgium...