Word: hollanders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tough Regulations. Last February, faced with a new dock strike, conservative Prime Minister Sidney Holland decided he would not permit the Communists to use democracy in order to destroy it. He announced a state of national emergency, declared the Waterside Workers an illegal organization, seized its funds. Soldiers, sailors and airmen were ordered to load ships...
...through Mozart's garden . . . We enter by an unassuming little gate: the Symphony in D [K.84] of the 14-year-old Mozart." The guide on this all-Mozart stroll last week was Benjamin Britten, 37, one of Britain's most highly rated composers (Peter Grimes). But the Holland Festival audience in Amsterdam's Concertgebouw was in for a grievous disappointment: not only did Benjy stray off the path; he tromped on the flowers...
...gifted amateur violinist, his mother a professional singer) started their boy off young. At five, David was studying violin in Odessa, his home town. He moved to Moscow in 1928 after a successful concert tour, continued to build his reputation in Russia, made brief appearances in France, Holland, Sweden and Belgium. In 1937, he won first prize in the Concours Eugene Ysaye, Belgium's international violin competition, later was awarded a first-class Stalin Prize. Now, between concerts, he teaches at the Moscow Conservatory...
...Michigan," gallery regulars promptly added it to their growing list of Wherryisms. Samples: addressing the chair as "Mr. Paragraph," offering a comment as "my unanimous opinion," referring to Indo-China as "Indigo China" and the old War Department Civil Functions Bill as the Civil War Functions Bill, calling Spessard Holland of Florida "the Senator from Holland" and Oregon's Wayne Morse "the distinguished Senator from junior...
...power, if not the ring-wise skill of Robinson himself. In 50 fights, young Turpin has been beaten only once (by France's Jean Stock). Since he won his title last October, Turpin has knocked out seven opponents in a row, including France's Stock and Holland's De Bruin...