Word: puffelen
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...bald-headed director of the bank. In Borculo kitchens, sweating huisvrouwen labored tirelessly, preparing thousands of doughnutlike oliebollen to sell for a quarter apiece. Every evening in the grammar-school gymnasium, lights burned far into the night while amateur Borculo acrobats sought in vain to match Butcher Bertus van Puffelen's marvelous tumbling feats. A crowd of giggling farm girls rehearsed a tableau vivant, and the village band started practicing The Stars and Stripes Forever. Under the leadership of hefty Grocer Albert Siebers, the rusty Achterhoekse Volksdansers (square dancing) society reconvened, to try out their old steps...
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