Word: wim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ecumenist was born in the first year of it. His father was a lawyer in the Dutch city of Haarlem; the family name (pronounced fisser toaft) means "fisher at the head''-the chief fisherman. Willem-then called muis (mouse) for his thin, sharp face, but now nicknamed Wim-was the gayest of three brothers, excelling at hockey and tennis, and good, though not brilliant, in school. His father was shocked when Wim said he was thinking of becoming a pastor. "You will have a hard life, and I doubt if you'll like the salary...
...ever since, and having since been ordained in the Swiss Reformed Church, he preaches every now and then. He married fragile-looking Netherlander Henriette Philippine Jacoba Boddaert, with whom he has three children, all now grown and scattered throughout Europe. "The problem of an international family is language," grins Wim. "When we get together, if the conversation begins in French someone will switch it to Dutch or German, someone else to English...