Word: huisvrouw
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...unemployment, a lower yield on invested capital, a drop in investments and a worsening balance of payments. A six-month freeze in wages has been imposed by the government to retard a 4% price rise. Dutch Minister of Social Affairs Bouke Roolvink recently went shopping with a disgruntled huisvrouw who had challenged him to stay within her inflation-socked budget. At the checkout counter he came up red-faced and $6 short...
Frugal and unfrivolous, she epitomized the solid Dutch virtues. Though she dressed like a dumpy Dutch huisvrouw in her frumpy hats, flat shoes and baggy tweeds, she was one of the world's richest women. She had a personal income of $5,000,000 a year from the East Indies alone. Even after Indonesia won its independence, she was worth at least $100 million in real estate, Royal Dutch Shell stock, paintings and bank holdings...
...TIME, still in Dutch, apologizes to Huisvrouw Juliana...
...sinkful of dirty dishes to TIME'S housewife-checker for not knowing that in Holland she would be a huisvrouw...
...Huisvrouw...
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