Word: willemstad
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Willemstad, the sunny Caribbean capital of the Netherlands Antilles, a banker ushers an American visitor through a hotel casino and into a dining room overlooking the harbor. During refreshments, the prospective customer says he expects a six-figure cash windfall soon and would like to bring the money "quietly" into the U.S. At first the banker responds cautiously. "This money isn't, ah, tainted, is it?" When the American assures him it is not, the officer of the Curacao branch of the French-owned Credit Lyonnais Nederland smiles and orders another tonic water. In that case, says the banker...
...independent Barbados, the government passed a law banning public meetings that stir up racial hatred and proposed a similar law for statements by members of Parliament. It also called off a conference of U.S. and West Indian Black Power leaders early in July. After radical workers and students sacked Willemstad, capital of the island of Curaçao in the Netherlands Antilles, last year, one of their leaders, Stanley Brown, explained: "Holland has a hell of a debt to Curaçao -something similar to the Germans' debt to the Jews. They didn't kill us, but they...
...Willemstad, Cura...
...Allies stood on the left bank of the Maas and its estuary, the Hollandsch Diep, on a 50-mile front. Nearly all of the German Fifteenth Army had already crossed intact by way of the big rail and road bridges at Moerdijk, a bridge at Geertruidenberg, ferries at Willemstad. When the Poles reached Geertruidenberg, they found it abandoned...
...gloomily expecting an attack on their homeland, are ill-disposed toward Nazis, are also afraid they might by way of sabotage set fire to the enormous quantities of oil stored in the islands by Royal Dutch Co. Nazi ships at Curaçao are now forced to anchor outside Willemstad's drawbridged harbor, at remote bays around the island. In the tropical climate, with next to nothing to do, the men's morale has rotted. Food is poor and scanty, water precious. Crews with edible cargoes have eaten them (one ship had nothing but oranges and lemons...