Word: koekoeks
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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Last May 6,000,000 voters went to the polls to choose among 17 political groupings (including one brand-new faction, the Farmers' Party, led by a politician whose name is Koekoek, pronounced cuckoo). In the outcome, the dominant Catholic People's Party gained only one parliamentary seat, while the socialist Labor Party, the nation's second biggest, lost ground. Also involved in the jockeying for position: the right-wing Freedom and Democracy Party, the Calvinist Anti-Revolutionary Party, and another, like-minded Protestant faction, the Christian Historical Union...