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  • Drifting in the air would be the gentle aroma of freshly baked pretzels, sweet rolls, and loaves of bread so unparalleled they were delivered daily to the Hermitage by train—while arranged in perfect rows behind the glass of the front case would be cakes topped in frostings as varied in color as the tulips of Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • We had people casting nativities before London was a village, we had your family in our sights before New Amsterdam became New York.†   (source)
  • I had been trying to call my brother in Spain for weeks, and had learned—from a friend of histhat he was flying back and forth to a hospital in Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • I would have a tingling sensation in my stomach as I remembered walking on a moving sidewalk in the Amsterdam airport.†   (source)
  • In Amsterdam a railway porter, a Surinamese Indian who speaks a little bit of Hindi, puts me in touch with the captain of a trawler who cargoes contraband into Paramaribo, then outward to the States.†   (source)
  • I once spent a few nights in Reykjavik on my way to Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • He goes home to a studio in Morningside Heights, with two windows facing west, on Amsterdam Avenue.†   (source)
  • He sent shipments of HeLa cells to researchers in Texas, India, New York, Amsterdam, and many places between.†   (source)
  • He remained in Amsterdam until his death in 1959.†   (source)
  • i. WHILE I WAS STILL in Amsterdam, I dreamed about my mother for the first time in years.†   (source)
  • Once that is achieved, the resistance will only conduct operations authorized by Delta Centrum in Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • I was too embarrassed to ask him about it, in case it dredged up painful memories for him of being teased as a child in Amsterdam, or wherever he is from.†   (source)
  • Annie had been in Amsterdam, then China, then Japan, then back to Geneva, and so hadn't had time to focus on Kalden, but the two of them had traded occasional messages about him.†   (source)
  • I hurried down to the door, introduced him hastily to the wife of an Amsterdam wholesaler, and got him upstairs.†   (source)
  • My work in twenty years has taken me to Toronto, Montreal, Paris, London, Manchester, Rome, Milan, Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfort, Cologne, Erlangen, Heidelberg, Stuttgart, southern Germany, Amsterdam, Groningen, Salzburg, Mexico City, Guadalajara, Chihuahua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, Peru, Venezuela, Tokyo and Sarajevo in Bosnia-Herzegovina.†   (source)
  • There was a problem, she said, because her sister Nargis was already engaged, promised to a cousin who lived in Amsterdam and was studying engineering.†   (source)
  • I had left my keys at school and waited two and a half hours at Belle's Market on Amsterdam Avenue for Mom to get home from work.†   (source)
  • Before leaving New York, I walk to the intersection of Seventieth Street and Amsterdam, where Nathaniel lived with Eugene Moye and with other classmates.†   (source)
  • Spinoza belonged to the Jewish community of Amsterdam, but he was excommunicated for heresy.†   (source)
  • The elderly man did so, walking slowly, as the wrinkled man did as well, and at the other side of that door the elderly man found himself being helped to his feet by the wrinkled man in the hilly neighborhood of Santa Teresa, in Rio de Janeiro, on a day that was noticeably younger and warmer than the day he had left in Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • He looked toward Fort Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • He was waiting for a lam flight from Amsterdam, which carried a passenger who had come from Kenya.†   (source)
  • This time they brought a telescope and a magnifying glass the size of a drum, which they exhibited as the latest discovery of the Jews of Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • People are climbing lampposts on Amsterdam Avenue, tooting car horns in Little Italy.†   (source)
  • At least initially, the number of illegal prostitutes increased, apparently because Amsterdam became a center for sex tourism.†   (source)
  • In 1968, he packed his wife, Lila, son Brent, and daughter Tara into an Airstream camper and drove from Amsterdam to Katmandu.†   (source)
  • My fame has spread to Amsterdam, London, New York.†   (source)
  • He and a friend had scammed cheap tickets to Amsterdam through the friend's relative.†   (source)
  • He spins into stories about when he lived on 127th Street and Amsterdam Avenue in upper Manhattan around the time his parents were coming out of hiding.†   (source)
  • The train to Amsterdam was in.†   (source)
  • From that serendipitous discovery, the coffee habit and trade spread to Yemen, Amsterdam, the Caribbean, South America, and the world, but it had all begun in Ethiopia, in a field like this.†   (source)
  • I even checked the transfers from London, Lisbon, Stockholm and Amsterdam-nothing.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist called from Café Madeleine on his anonymous mobile to book a flight to Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • Above all, he longed to accomplish something, and was very quickly on his way to Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • An hour later, I'm on my sixth cup of coffee at the Hungarian pastry shop on Amsterdam Avenue.†   (source)
  • Amsterdam?†   (source)
  • He was telling me he met some Norwegians who were on their way to a convention in Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • Hired himself a suite at the Valhalla Hotel-and you know what that is-and the last I heard, he was still there today, drinking himself under the table and the beds, with a few choice friends of his and half the female population of upper Amsterdam Avenue!†   (source)
  • Immediate options are Prague, Venice, Budapest, Amsterdam, Brussels, London, and Berlin.†   (source)
  • I stopped the microfiche at a photograph in the Amsterdam News.†   (source)
  • AMSTERDAM-PARIS†   (source)
  • "I married lady from New Amsterdam," he said.†   (source)
  • At this place in Sweden, I became friends with a Jewish woman from Amsterdam who was very kind to me, especially after I tried to kill myself.†   (source)
  • She was registered in Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • My father was a stranger she met on her way to Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • Such groups weren't always keen to take orders from Amsterdam, let alone London.†   (source)
  • I saw a tall man standing on the wall of Fort Amsterdam, waving at us.†   (source)
  • After the arrest, Kugler and Kleiman were taken to a prison in Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • He still lives in New York, rents the apartment on Amsterdam Avenue.†   (source)
  • We walk to Amsterdam, past the garage, where the boys still say stuff to us and we ignore them.†   (source)
  • "Corrie," he began gently, "when you and I go to Amsterdam—when do I give you your ticket?"†   (source)
  • I was really depressed to come back to the States after Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • "Amsterdam is an easy city to get around," Boris said, as if I hadn't spoken.†   (source)
  • If I don't get it right away, she'll be taken to Amsterdam and then it will be too late."†   (source)
  • I glanced over at Belle's Market on Amsterdam, but no one was out front.†   (source)
  • EPILOGUE AMSTERDAM, 2005 It's time to put all this stuff away.†   (source)
  • Elisabeth (Bep) Voskuijl Wijk died in Amsterdam in 1983.†   (source)
  • NEWARK LIBERTY INTL (EWR) TO AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS (AMS†   (source)
  • She lives on some obscure street in West Amsterdam, and none of us know where it is.†   (source)
  • Was it right to connect a family in Amsterdam with the trouble here?†   (source)
  • Two days later, in response to a signal from Amsterdam relayed through London, Tamar left the farm.†   (source)
  • Traffic was flying by on Amsterdam Avenue.†   (source)
  • "From Antwerp to Amsterdam is only three hours' drive," said Boris.†   (source)
  • Then a PO box number in Amsterdam and my London office number.†   (source)
  • Miep Santrouschitz Gies is still living in Amsterdam; her husband Jan died in 1993.†   (source)
  • "I do not know why he does not move to Amsterdam," he said, gnawing happily on a hunk of sausage.†   (source)
  • Clearly we were not being taken to Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • He is afraid to show his face in Amsterdam —afraid it will get back to Horst.†   (source)
  • By now there'll have been mass executions in The Hague and Amsterdam and Amersfoort.†   (source)
  • MONDAY, JULY 19,1943 Dearest Kitty, North Amsterdam was very heavily bombed on Sunday.†   (source)
  • AFTER TEN DAYS in the Haarlem jail, Nollie was transferred to the federal prison in Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • For druggies, Amsterdam is fairly popular Christmas spot.†   (source)
  • The train trip to Amsterdam took only half an hour, but it was a wonderful ride.†   (source)
  • I was in Amsterdam, " I added, when he didn't say anything.†   (source)
  • Meyer Mossel, he told us afterward, had been cantor in the synagogue in Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • I have a sister in prison here in Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • His wife, he said, was visiting a sister in Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • Harry de Vries will be taken to Amsterdam tomorrow.†   (source)
  • MONDAYS, FATHER TOOK the train to Amsterdam to get the time from the Naval Observatory.†   (source)
  • I told them what had happened on the Barteljorisstraat and gave them the Amsterdam address.†   (source)
  • The Jewish theater in Amsterdam was broken into last night.†   (source)
  • At last, Amsterdam, even bigger than Haarlem, with its bewilderment of strange streets and canals.†   (source)
  • They have already taken him to Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • 'Your words are terrific, but don't buy a diamond in Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • It reminded Simon of pictures of rich neighborhoods in Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • Word goes out in Amsterdam and Berlin, Geneva and Lisbon, London and right here in Paris.†   (source)
  • Salem looked like someone who wouldn't be out of place in Venice Beach or Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • Amsterdam, then," said Cooper, swinging David's pack over his shoulder.†   (source)
  • They wondered if the plane had turned around in the night and they were in Brussels or Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • Thus, as Adams wrote, the true power lay in the cities and in Amsterdam in particular.†   (source)
  • Before I could ask him who exactly Ramona was, or what had happened in Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • You really don't want to hear about Istanbul and Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • "I couldn't be involved with something like Paris or Amsterdam."†   (source)
  • That I'm underground here in Paris, or Brussels, or Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • They all pass through New Amsterdam or Philadelphia on their way west.†   (source)
  • It detonated at half past four precisely, in the center of Amsterdam's bustling Albert Cuyp Market.†   (source)
  • "He was right," agreed Marie, "but he's not in Paris, or Brussels, or Amsterdam."†   (source)
  • Adams received "the glorious news" at Amsterdam the night of November 23.†   (source)
  • London, Amsterdam, Brussels, Rome-they'd all be better for us than Paris, but the best is Moscow.†   (source)
  • "The left one goes to Amsterdam," he muttered.†   (source)
  • "Amsterdam fever" was a well-known and dreaded malady.†   (source)
  • He said you were the operational planner for both Paris and Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • Adams was by then established in his commodious new residence in Amsterdam on the Keizersgracht.†   (source)
  • What was your precise role in the Paris and Amsterdam attacks?†   (source)
  • The doctors in Paris and Amsterdam had long nights recently, too.†   (source)
  • Such was the turmoil of Amsterdam that Adams now found it impossible even to arrange meetings.†   (source)
  • What was your precise role in the Paris and Amsterdam attacks?†   (source)
  • John Quincy and Charles were enrolled in Amsterdam's renowned Latin School, and Adams set to work.†   (source)
  • Amsterdam remained the commercial center of Europe.†   (source)
  • It was filled with the news from Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • The single consolation was that Jefferson was to meet him at Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • Margreet Janssen had stopped there just ten days before the slap in Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • Paris and Amsterdam had been dress rehearsals.†   (source)
  • Amsterdam alone had more than goo bridges arching its web of canals.†   (source)
  • She could sail for London, Amsterdam, or any port in France.†   (source)
  • The attacks in Paris and Amsterdam were but a preview of coming attractions.†   (source)
  • What was your precise role in the Paris and Amsterdam attacks?†   (source)
  • The furniture included pieces purchased originally for the houses at Amsterdam and The Hague.†   (source)
  • The attacks in Paris and Amsterdam were carried out by our network.†   (source)
  • I'm here for the victims in Amsterdam and America.†   (source)
  • "So what was Jalal's connection to Paris and Amsterdam?"†   (source)
  • On Prinsengracht in the center of Amsterdam an elderly man stepped out onto the balcony of his little flat, one of the dozens into which what had been a pair of centuries-old canal houses and former warehouses had been converted, these flats looking out into a courtyard that was as lush with foliage as a tropical jungle, wet with greenness, in this city of water, and moss grew on the wooden edges of his balcony, and ferns also, and tendrils climbed up its sides, and there he had two…†   (source)
  • There was no use in asking Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • She threw back her duvet, slid on the blue-flowered, fur-lined clogs she'd bought in Amsterdam, and clomped down the spiral staircase to see who it was.†   (source)
  • Dingy linoleum and appliances lining a single wall remind Gogol of his former place on Amsterdam Avenue.†   (source)
  • It was very hard to finish my breakfast because I wanted to go to Punda, the business district, the oldest part of town, and then to Fort Amsterdam where I could look out to sea.†   (source)
  • His futon and his table, his kettle and toaster and television and the rest of his things, remain on Amsterdam Avenue.†   (source)
  • She had picked up some carpet samples at a store on Amsterdam Avenue and written the kids' names on the backs.†   (source)
  • And when I asked him why he wasn't at our regular spot after school, he'd just mumbled something and looked at his feet, and then we'd walked toward Amsterdam in total silence.†   (source)
  • When I walked by him a minute later, the laughing man was shaking his fist at the sky and kicking his legs out into the traffic rushing up Amsterdam Avenue.†   (source)
  • Find the transport, find the escorts, to bring in extra death candidates from Amsterdam,from The Hague, from all over the place?†   (source)
  • The second question about the invasion was bound to arise: what should we do if the Germans evacuate Amsterdam?†   (source)
  • Even more worrying was that his special groups were still—still—finding handfuls of Jews in Amsterdam and elsewhere.†   (source)
  • It happened in the fall, when Sal and I still walked home from school together every single day: one block from West End Avenue to Broadway, one block from Broadway to Amsterdam, past the laughing man on our corner, and then half a block to our lobby door.†   (source)
  • It may be damp and lopsided, but there's probably not a more comfortable hiding place in all of Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • After Auschwitz was liberated by Russian troops, he was repatriated to Amsterdam by way of Odessa and Marseille.†   (source)
  • A few kids called him Quack, short for Quackers, or they called him Kicker because he used to do these sudden kicks into the street, like he was trying to punt one of the cars speeding up Amsterdam Avenue.†   (source)
  • We knew about The Hague and Amsterdam and Amersfoort too, but we didn't know the numbers then, of course.†   (source)
  • Sascha wasn't even in Amsterdam—he was hearing it all at second hand, from Chinky, whose German is not that great—Horst was hearing it at third.†   (source)
  • That middle block between Broadway and Amsterdam is mostly a huge garage, where the sidewalk is all slanted, and we had to be careful when it was icy or else we'd slip right in front of the pack of boys always hanging out there.†   (source)
  • Drugsgerelateerde criminaliteit: Frits Aaltink afkomstig uit Amsterdam en Mackay Fiedler Martin uit Los Angeles.†   (source)
  • Since large portions of Amsterdam were shaded in, our first question was what we should do if the water in the streets rose to above our waists.†   (source)
  • He lived in Amsterdam, studying English, but he'd got some sort of grant to spend a year at the University of London.†   (source)
  • Upon their arrest, the eight residents of the Annex were first brought to a prison in Amsterdam and then transferred to Westerbork, the transit camp for Jews in the north of Holland.†   (source)
  • But for all foreseeable time to come—for as long as history was written, until the icecaps melted and the streets of Amsterdam were awash with water—the painting would be remembered and mourned.†   (source)
  • These are direct orders from Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • We started toward Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • But I also looked out the open window, letting my eyes roam over a large part of Amsterdam, over the rooftops and on to the horizon, a strip of blue so pale it was almost invisible.†   (source)
  • "Well — Horst definitely didn't know the painting was in Amsterdam, nor that Sascha was trying to get a loan on it, not until Sascha panicked and called him when we took it.†   (source)
  • At almost the same time, the Amsterdam candidates were shot to death in the garden of a tea shop close to the Amstel River.†   (source)
  • From Amsterdam, Rotterdam, everywhere.†   (source)
  • And while it was quite possible Martin and Frits had colleagues in Amsterdam looking for me (another good reason to get out of town), I had no reason to think the police were looking for me at all.†   (source)
  • He arrived in Amsterdam on June 3, 1945, and stayed there until 1953, when he moved to Basel (Switzerland), where his sister and her family, and later his brother, lived.†   (source)
  • I can safely say that all of Amsterdam, all of Holland, in fact the entire western coast of Europe, all the way down to Spain, are talking about the invasion day and night, debating, making bets and …. hoping.†   (source)
  • Boris, at lunch, had spoken of taking the train from Amsterdam to Antwerp (and Frankfurt: I didn't want to go anywhere near Germany) but, also, to Paris.†   (source)
  • Lages, the chief of security in Amsterdam, was embarrassed to admit that he had only fifty-three death candidates to offer, rather than the seventy-five Schongarth wanted.†   (source)
  • Anton —" nibbling on a roll: making a face, spitting a rye seed between his teeth — "Anton works in a bar where many rich people go, off P. C. Hooftstraat, fancy Amsterdam —Gucci Street, Cartier street.†   (source)
  • Especially when we handed him the following typewritten rules and regulations for the Secret Annex (a van Daan production): PROSPECTUS AND GUIDE TO THE SECRET ANNEX A Unique Facility for the Temporary Accommodation of Jews and Other Dispossessed Persons Open all year round: Located in beautiful, quiet, wooded surroundings in the heart of Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • I am extremely grateful to the kind (and bilingual) staff of the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation in Amsterdam; they even allowed me to work there when it was supposed to be closed.†   (source)
  • Before the war, they had been the holiday homes of well-off Jewish families from Amsterdam, but these families no longer existed in any recognizable form.†   (source)
  • Father received a biography of Linnaeus from Mr. Kleiman, a book on nature from Mr. Kugler, The Canals of Amsterdam from Dussel, a huge box from the van Daans (wrapped so beautifully it might have been done by a professional), containing three eggs, a bottle of beer, a jar of yogurt and a green tie.†   (source)
  • And as an ongoing prospect, after Amsterdam, which was really my Damascus, the way station and apogee of my Conversion as I guess you'd call it, I continue to be immensely moved by the impermanence of hotels: not in any mundane Travel-and-Leisure way but with a fervor bordering on the transcendent.†   (source)
  • I went at once to Amsterdam to see him.†   (source)
  • "No—I didn't mean here here—not in Amsterdam —I will agree with you that it is a very good idea for us probably to get out of town, and as for myself I will not care to be coming back for a while.†   (source)
  • Possibly a good idea to go down and look at the State Department's website and apprise myself of my rights as an American citizen—certainly there were many worse places in the world to be in jail than the Netherlands and maybe if I was up front about everything I knew (Horst and Sascha, Martin and Frits, Frankfurt and Amsterdam) they could run the painting down.†   (source)
  • As soon as he was strong enough to travel by train again, he resumed his weekly trips to Amsterdam to get Naval Observatory time.†   (source)
  • But she didn't know and it was three days before the family learned that he had been taken to the federal prison in Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • Why Amsterdam?†   (source)
  • I mean—Amsterdam?†   (source)
  • But Annaliese had been sent to the old Jewish theater in Amsterdam from which Jews were transported to extermination camps in Germany and Poland.†   (source)
  • Because they kept cancelling and changing the plan—you did not even arrive until today, but they do not know that—because they kept changing the plan I told them you were tired and nervous of sitting around Amsterdam with suitcase of green waiting to hear from them, you'd re-banked your moneys and were flying back to U.S. They did not like to hear that.†   (source)
  • We saw Nollie even before our train came to a stop in Amsterdam—her bright blue sweater like a patch of blue sky in the big dark shed.†   (source)
  • Prostitutes, most from Amsterdam, they were in prison not for their profession—which was extolled as a patriotic duty—but for infecting German soldiers.†   (source)
  • Boris—happily gobbling—was reminiscing about his first and only attempt to ride a bicycle in the city (wipeout, disaster) and also how much he enjoyed the new herring in Amsterdam, which fortunately wasn't in season since apparently you ate it by holding it up by the tail fin and dangling it down into your mouth, but I was too disoriented by my surroundings to listen very closely and with almost painfully heightened senses I stirred at the potato mess with my fork and felt the…†   (source)
  • Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • At the train station in Amsterdam!†   (source)
  • It was my first time in Amsterdam; I'd seen almost nothing of the city and yet the room itself, in its bleak, drafty, sunscrubbed beauty, gave a keen sense of Northern Europe, a model of the Netherlands in miniature: whitewash and Protestant probity, co-mingled with deep-dyed luxury brought in merchant ships from the East.†   (source)
  • I know several Smits in Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • Father would take the train to Amsterdam each week to bring back the time from the Naval Observatory and it was a source of pride to him that the astronomical clock was never more than two seconds off in the seven days.†   (source)
  • I went back to Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • He recalled the enormous inner space of the Old Church in Amsterdam and felt the strange incomprehensible ecstasy that void had evoked in him.†   (source)
  • Pilar (1980) I'm browsing in the remainders bins outside a record shop on Amsterdam Avenue when two men call to me halfheartedly from across the street, more out of habit than desire.†   (source)
  • "Most of the white soldiers he knew in Germany would spend weekends "catching the clap, getting drunk, or shooting up," Mortenson says, so he'd catch free military flights with black soldiers instead—to Rome or London or Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • Customers can easily find an underage Eastern European girl working as a prostitute in Amsterdam, but not in Stockholm.†   (source)
  • He walks over toward Amsterdam Avenue.†   (source)
  • The monkeys were then put into wooden crates and flown to Amsterdam on a specially fitted cargo airplane, and from Amsterdam they were flown to New York City.†   (source)
  • A woman as governor of the state of Irrakwa, and a Red at that, accepted as the equal of the governors of Suskwahenny, Pennsylvania, New Amsterdam, New Sweden, New Orange, New Holland--†   (source)
  • The great empty space of Amsterdam's Old Church had appeared to him in a sudden and mysterious revelation as the image of his own liberation.†   (source)
  • He hurries up Amsterdam past a TV-radio store where a TV is flickering and half a dozen people are watching in the cold.†   (source)
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