Word: gelder
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...herself in agonizing labor. More than a dozen midwives of the Swiss town where she lived had tended to her for days, with no sign of the baby. Facing the likelihood of losing mother and child, and in the absence of any surgeons, Mrs. Nufer's husband, a swine gelder, decided to cut her open and extricate his offspring. Because there had, at this time, been no known incidence of a woman surviving such a procedure, the couple would have said what were assumed to be their last goodbyes before Jacob Nufer made the first incision...
...hale looking scholar with an authoritative manner," wrote Robert van Gelder in the New York Times. "There goes the most objectionable type of Harvard man," fumed an irate New England matriarch. Quoth the editors of Time: "a Boston Brahmin with a bite...
...Dutch mega-chain Royal Ahold. Having a Dutch uncle has won Peapod its first operating profit since the high-tech home-delivery service was founded in 1989. It expects to be fully profitable by 2003, partly because it curtailed its early ambitions. "We got too big," says Marc van Gelder, a former Ahold executive who is Peapod's ceo. "Now we're staying east of the Mississippi"--and binding the company tightly to Ahold-owned stores and distribution centers...
...uniquely his -- the "unconscious" hookings and flourishes of line in some of the drawings, for instance -- were just what apprentices like Ferdinand Bol were best at imitating. The more gifted ones would work on parts of Rembrandt's pictures. Some of the assistants were brilliant painters, like Aert de Gelder or Samuel van Hoogstraten. Others, like Nicolaes Maes, Willem Drost or the feeble Isack Jouderville, would hardly be remembered but for the fact that they worked...
...every CompuServe subscriber is entranced. In the current issue of Ms. magazine, Writer Lindsy Van Gelder describes an encounter her twelve-and nine-year-old daughters, masquerading as sophisticated older women, enjoyed with a long-distance correspondent. "I'm French-kissing you now," cooed the would-be seducer. To which the kids promptly typed: "P-tooey...