Word: hollanders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...welcomed more than 400 U.S. military deserters, was the first Western nation to give the Hanoi government full diplomatic recognition and is planning to offer North Viet Nam $30 million in postwar aid. In recent weeks, Swedish demonstrators have hurled eggs and epithets at the new U.S. Ambassador, Jerome Holland, a black educator who heard himself jeered as a "nigger" when he stepped off the plane in Stockholm...
...offering aid to North Viet Nam-and offered similar help to rebuild South Viet Nam after the war. He expressed his "tremendous sympathy" for the American prisoners in the North and promised to "pay special attention to the fate of the prisoners." As for the attacks on Ambassador Holland, Palme called them the work of "a lunatic fringe-scoundrels who damage the reputation of Sweden...
...makes small, unpretentious bronzes of athletes and urban dwellers−hardly the thing, it would seem, to cause a tremor in these days of earth works and conceptual art. Yet within the past year Verkade's works have been eagerly sought and bought by private collectors from Holland to Hollywood...
Bombed to rubble in World War II, Rotterdam later became a marvel of economic growth. Holland's second biggest city now boasts the world's busiest port and a vast complex of petrochemical plants with blue-chip owners like Shell and British Petroleum. Unfortunately, the marvel also gushes appalling fumes - acrylates, hydrocarbons, paint solvents and sulfur dioxide. Of all Dutch deaths from bronchitis in urban areas, the highest number occur in Rotterdam. Dutch workers are quitting the city's industries, which are seeking replacements from as far away as Turkey...
...became a hero and a martyr after the Senate rejected his nomination to the Supreme Court. Florida's Republican Senator Edward Gurney extolled the ex-judge as a "dream" candidate and "unbeatable" in the G.O.P.'s effort to take over the Senate seat of retiring Democrat Spessard Holland...