Word: walloon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Background: Born in Brussels on Jan. 25, 1899, Spaak, like his native land, is an amalgam of two widely divergent strains. His Flemish father was one of Belgium's best-known artists, a poet, playwright and director of the Brussels Royal Opera. His mother, a Walloon, was Belgium's first woman Senator, the daughter of one of the nation's great 19th century liberal leaders and the sister of a former Prime Minister...
Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson, 65, confessed to reporters that; he was nursing three or four cracked ribs which he had injured in a 35-m.p.h. spill while aquaplaning with Assistant Defense Secretary W. J. McNeil at Walloon Lake, Mich., on July 4. Recalling that he had broken his hip while ice skating and his shoulder while fox hunting, Wilson concluded ruefully: "I guess I'll have...
...Minister of Education in Brussels had appointed a local doctor named Joseph Van de Velde to the vacant chair of clinical surgery. The rector did not want him, nor did his. students. "Van de Velde can't even speak Flemish," was the students' cry. "This is Walloon interference again...