Word: dutchmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guests left their weapons outside the kraal with their women & children. At the height of the festivity, after a tumultuous war dance, Dingaan's Zulus fell upon the Dutchmen, dragged them to the hill of execution, beat them to death with knobkerries, then surged on the Boer wagons to massacre the women & children...
British sailors in their stiff white duck hats, Frenchmen in their flat caps with red pom-poms and Dutchmen in their black streamered hats all but drank the local pubs dry. Field Marshal Montgomery, chief of Western Union's joint command, held a reception on board H.M.S. Implacable. The Netherlands' Prince Bernhard gave a cocktail party aboard the Tromp, which was named after one of the few admirals of any nation who soundly beat the British on the seas...
...Amsterdam in 1876. From the town square, an imposing statue looks down at the idle harbor. It is Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Holland's great governor of the East Indies, who had pushed into Java to found an empire. Graven on the base of the monument, for Dutchmen to read, is his terse motto: "Desespereert niet" (Do not despair...
...many had the strength or the spirit to offer complete resistance. Ambrière was one of 4,000 Frenchmen (there were also 300 Dutchmen and 200 Belgians) who were sent to a special camp in Poland for bitter-enders who refused to do any work for the Germans. When the Russians got close, these prisoners were returned to Germany, where Ambrière's group was liberated by the U.S. Third Army...
...first, there was bitter squabbling among the school's 100 students. Dutchmen and Danes balked at the idea of sharing rooms with Austrians and Germans. The teachers expected a certain sullen resistance to lectures on U.S. life and letters (chiefly Emerson and Hawthorne, Henry James and Howells, Hemingway and O'Neill), but the students, mostly teachers themselves, were eager to learn. They spent the mornings avidly taking notes at lectures. They spent the afternoons questioning and discussing at seminars. In the evenings, they gathered in the castle garden for reading and conversation...