Word: het
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dutch army, who had been conscripted for unpopular service in a steaming, tropical land. Last week the sides of Dutch army trucks, filled with tall blond soldiers, bore chalked signs like: Tabeh, we gaan de rommel verlaten (Goodbye, we're pulling out of this mess) and Doe het self maar verder. Gaan naar moeder (Do it yourself. We're going home to mother...
Said Scotsman Hector McNeil, a member of the British delegation: "Cauld kail het again" (Cold cabbage warmed over...
...Seldom had placid Amsterdam appeared so festive. Orange banners flew from every peaked rooftop and festooned the walls of theaters and office buildings. Orange ties and orange ribbons decked every citizen, and orange lights glittered along every road. When the sun broke through chill August clouds the Dutch said: "Het oranje zonnetje komt altijd door" (The little orange sun always comes through). As the city's population swelled from a normal 800,000 to twice that number, hotelkeepers flung mattresses in bathtubs and police considered putting deck chairs on hundreds of boats. By day and by night, barrel organs...
...been in retirement while Juliana acted as Regent). Holland was bathed last week in an orange glow of jubilee excitement; in Amsterdam orange lights glittered from the sleek façade of Heineken's brewery, and evergreen trees with orange lights lined the roads leading to Het Loo (meaning "The Woods"), the Queen's summer palace. (At Het Loo the Queen herself was busy discussing with Juliana the apportionment of the House of Orange's considerable fortune...
...symbolic award. On every mile of their ten-week trip, the visitors had made friends for themselves and their Empire. Last week, they were back on board the Vanguard, steaming home to Britain. "U het ons U harte gegee" (You have given us your hearts), the Queen told their South African subjects. As the big warship moved slowly out of Table Bay into the open sea, the crowds thronged the dockside for a last glimpse. "Will ye no come back again?" they sang. At his farewell banquet the King had already given his promise. "Tot Siens," he had said...