Word: aberant
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...department has been a place for students who want a general education but don't want to concentrate too specifically," said J. Lawrence Aber '72, a member of the department's Committee on Undergraduate Instruction. "It's essential that the department stay together on the undergraduate level...
...primates, and progeny of puny primates! Why bite one another now, though your ancestors might have? Répondez s'il vous plait! man hunting man! Ach, mein Gott! are human beings fools or what? In the interim . . . while I wait, and you tell, mach's nach, aber mach's besser, viz., carry on, boys, and continue like hell...
...Aber natürlich! When Christian Democrats from the city of Bonn convene next month to select their candidate for the 1965 West German Parliamentary elections, they are expected to nominate the freshest whiff of springtime that ever wafted up the Rhine from Cologne: Konrad Adenauer, 89. Der Alte has been telling cronies that his idea of a hobby for those sunset years would be a back bench of the Bundestag for the term that ends...
...Aber No Sweat. As a result, Anglicisms are now weirdly lodged in most major languages. Russian futbol fans cheer a fourvard's goal, jeer an offside penalty. Western-vowed stilyagi (Teddy boys) call themselves Tom, Dick or Harry, and breakfast on corn flakes...
...brandneu, Eierkopf, Herzattacke, kalter Krieg, (byproduct, brand-new, egghead, heart attack, cold war). They assimilate the unassimilable by total adoption-beatnik, baby sitter, bootlegger, bulldozer, king-size, scooter and stripper. Hundreds of American words have become German Verbs-parken, twisten, hitchhiken. The Luftwaffe fills the air with bilingual babble: "Aber no sweat, boy, no sweat. Ich habe normal letdown procedure gemacht...