Word: doppelkopf
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...next 16 years Erhard helped run a small, city-supported market-research institute in Nürnberg. It was a backwater existence. Evenings Erhard dined heavily on Franconian smoked meat and dumplings, played the piano or took a hand at Doppelkopf (a four-handed card game) with his institute associates. After World War II broke out, local Nazis pressed Erhard to join Hitler's Labor Front. He refused, lost his post and founded an institute of his own. Friends in the German national association of manufacturers got him such jobs as surveying "The Total Headwear Requirements of Bombed...
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