Word: middelburg
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...Middelburg, a small town outside Pretoria, two small boys run up to wash the windows of the car, hoping to get a few cents for their efforts. They wipe the window furiously with a cloth only slightly more ragged than their clothes; this five cents means a lot to them. Times are bad now for black South Africans. Unemployment has reached an all-time high, though no one has exact figures; and there is no minimum wage for most of the jobs blacks can do. 80 per cent of black South Africans fall below the poverty datum line, the absolute...
...Middelburg, South Africa...
Some 250 British and Canadian troops, ready to drop from battle exhaustion, stumbled into 15th-Century Middelburg to find that Daser had paraded all his available troops-more than 2,500 of them -into the square and ordered them to squat down for the night. Then individualist Daser wrapped himself in a yellow patchwork quilt, retired to his bedroom with quantities of aspirin and Veuve Clicquot champagne, refused to go through with the formal details of surrender before dawn...
Wing Commander Charles E. Kingsford-Smith, who in June flew the Southern Cross from Ireland to the U. S., underwent an appendectomy at Middelburg, Holland. He is convalescing at the home of his good friend Author Hendrik Willem Van Loon at Verre...
Yesterday afternoon a 49-year-old employee of the central packing house at Middelburg intended to kill a cow. Just when he was ready to fire the gun, the cow, with its head, pushed the weapon out of his hand. As it fell to the floor, it went off and the man was shot in the abdomen. He died at once...