Word: ersatz
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Adenauer chose an interview over the Northwest German Radio network for his answer, knowing that the microphones would carry his words across the Rhine: "EDC is not only the best but the sole good solution . . . Alternatives to EDC differ from true EDC as ersatz coffee differs from real coffee ... In the unlikely case that France rejects EDC, nothing would remain but to establish a German national army alongside a French national army and other national armies ... It would be an absurdity of history and of politics if France, by allowing EDC to fail, should be directly responsible for the creation...
...face powder, creams, shampoos, etc. But the stuff was shoddy, the kissproof lipstick ran, and women went back to the black market. Last week, retreating but not beaten, state stores were selling "imported cosmetics" at up to twelve times the price of the local products. Even so, many were ersatz products wearing fake French and U.S. labels...
...rapid-fire commentary on the movies or mouthing to a phonograph record, or even on the screen at all, Up in Arms doesn't show its age. When the picture gets landlocked in its own production numbers, it demonstrates that wartime movies, like other consumer goods, also suffered from ersatz material...
...Chaplinesque plot begins very slowly with an ex-convict deprived of employment and his passport. Desperate, the little man buys a Captain's uniform, storms into Koepenick, and seizes the Town Hall. Always jibing at stuffy authoritarian, the ersatz Captain imprisons even Mayor Obermculler, a stout buffoon played by Max Guelstorff. The mayor knows nothing of his offense, but there can be no injustice under Germany's martial law and order. He salutes and plods to jail...
Outside on the street, it was a warm afternoon. In Jordan Marsh's windows were scenes of local churches, seen through a revolving glass, ersatz snow falling, like through a Bendix window. A Salvation Army band moved up and played carols. The trumpeter looked like Boston's own Major Barbara and the crowd listened. Two young Oliver Twists blew horns and the leader pumped a trombone, trying vainly to look as little like a bank clerk as possible. By the curb, a small aging woman held out her tambourine. An S.A. cap sat on her stringy grey curls; her eyes...