Word: limburger
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...Weatherman Truman sided with the much-maligned experts, too. Asked why Kansas City had been blanketed by an unexpected snow that very morning, Harry Truman chuckled: "If you had looked at the weather map, you would have seen it was in the cards." In Brussels, comely Countess Alvina Van Limburg Stirum, 43, was asked about rumors that she will soon be engaged to the ex-suitor of Britain's Princess Margaret, Group Captain Peter Townsend, 41, an air attache at Britain's local embassy. Snorted she: "Absolute nonsense." Seconded Townsend: "Complete nonsense." Added the countess: "I have...
...leading candidate. The vote: Gerstenmaier 204, Lemmer 190. The new Speaker, having torn up his confident acceptance speech, made a sad little talk, declaring that he hoped to be able "to win the confidence of the Chamber." The old Chancellor drove off impatiently to a political meeting in Limburg and explained his being three hours late by growling: "I have just come from a Bundestag session which was a disgrace...
...track down the broadcasters of these titillating messages, Belgian police were patrolling the back roads of rural Limburg last week in small trucks loaded with apparatus for locating secret transmitters. But the dour, closemouthed Flemish farmers were as uncooperative as they were in the wartime days when the Gestapo hunted for Belgian underground radio operators...
...amiable protest, for, like nearly every other Hollander, the mayor of Katwijk was in high holiday mood. For seven days last week, stolid shopkeepers and sturdy burghers from Friesland to Limburg, from Gelderland to the sea put by their staid reserve to celebrate a golden jubilee and say farewell to a Queen and a friend. In medieval Utrecht parading clowns made boisterous sport of laughing huisvrouwen. In southern 's Hertogenbosch ragamuffin children romped through the streets in false faces...
Fuel is still scarce. Wilhelmina, like her subjects, got only half a ton of coal last winter. But production in the Limburg mines is coming back; in 1947 it should reach seven-ninths of the prewar output, and be almost normal...