Word: holland
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...document that both sides signed calls for a U.N. police force to take over West New Guinea from the Dutch on Oct. 1, pass it on to the Indonesians seven months later. It was a compromise engineered by retired U.S. Diplomat Ellsworth Bunker, whose plan was swallowed reluctantly by Holland. The Dutch made no secret of their bitterness. Said Premier J. E. de Quay: "Holland could not count on the support of its allies, and for that reason we had to sign...
Died. Henry Finch Holland, 49, a jut-jawed lawyer who was John Foster Dulles' Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs from 1954-56, an energetic champion of the concept that private enterprise should play the major role in developing Latin America's economy, describing himself as a man "often in error but never in doubt"; of cancer; in Greenwich, Conn...
...pride of Holland's city of Arnhem is a sturdy 11th century Gothic structure called the Eusebius Church. Badly damaged during World War II, this Dutch Reformed church has gradually been rebuilt in strict accordance to medieval style. But when Architect Theo Verlaan came along to rebuild the steeple, things changed fast...
Soon all of Arnhem, and half of Holland, was talking about the gargoyles. Cartoonist Toonder wrote in to suggest that his copyright was being infringed. At last report, no protest had arrived from Disney, and Arnhem's burgomaster thought the affair more funny than vulgar. go right ahead, he told Verlaan after trudging topside for a look. That was just enough to spur Sculptor Vreeling on to greater artistic heights. Not far from Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, Vreeling is happily at work carving another stone figure: a dragon peeping out from a mushroom-shaped cloud. The dragon...
...Spanish Armada destroyed by Queen Elizabeth's navy, freeing Holland and France from domination by Spain...