Word: holland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...throw over his post in Washington for another four years in Tallahassee. The U.S. Senate seems a likelier cap for his career. Senator George Smathers, who has been seriously ill with ulcers and a kidney ailment, has already announced that he may not run again in 1968. Senator Spessard Holland, now 73, may also decide to step down when his present term expires in January 1971. Though little more than a mile separates the Commerce Department from Capitol Hill, in Collins' case a detour back to Florida might prove the shorter route between...
Stolid Dutch burghers wanted genre scenes, not Biblical pageantry. Terbrugghen did his requisite of martyrs and evangelists, but it is his fleshly sinners that were his daily bread. In 17th century Holland, where drinking, smoking, gambling, even lute playing were castigated, the artist's twaddling codgers, topless prostitutes and leering rakes mime ribald vignettes...
...hardly speaking for Holland. Polls showed that 70% of Beatrix's future subjects favored the match, with 17% in the "couldn't care less" class...
...Real Danger. The fiber makers are crossing borders and oceans to vie for markets. Courtaulds is building plants in Sweden, Imperial in Portugal, Holland's Algemene Kunstzijde Unie (A.K.U.) in Spain. Farbenfabriken is building in Belgium, Chemstrand in Scotland, Firestone in France. Du Pont will finish a new Dacron and nylon plant in Germany next year...
...term, dating back to a 17th century British campaign in Holland, is a corruption of a Dutch phrase meaning "turn off the taps." Before it was blown up into a musical extravaganza, the tattoo was merely the nightly drum signal beaten through the streets to shutter the bars and steer the troops back to their quarters...