Word: hollander
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...Holland's first U.S. entry, the DAF 600, a new five-passenger, two-cylinder family car with top speed of 57 m.p.h., 40 miles per gal. gas consumption. Price...
...were forced to hide out in the attic of an Amsterdam factory to escape the Nazi pogrom. For two years the eight fugitives, supplied with meager amounts of food by friends, crouched in the same wretched refuge until the Nazis found them - only nine months before the liberation of Holland. Of the eight, only Anne's father, Otto Frank, escaped death in concentration camps, and it was he who released Anne's meticulous diary record of their two desperate years...
Along with all the other problems that beset the motorist the world over, drivers in Holland have one added hazard to contend with: the canals. An average of two cars a day slip their brakes, back into or otherwise plunge into the country's famed waterways. Last year, 100 drivers and passengers drowned before help arrived...
...story. His wife and her mother Margaretha had fought so constantly that Margaretha had become "psychologically labile," his wife had lost their first two children through miscarriages (apparently due to nervous strain). Mother Muylaert, who seemed about ready to scoot back to Canada, added a final touch of endearment. Holland, she told the press, is "a horrible country...
Parents of National Merit Scholarship winners chose Harvard as "the best college in the United States" in a recent poll conducted by John L. Holland, director of research for the National Merit Scholarship Corporation...