Word: ersatz
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...Hellabrunn horses are a modern throwback to that ancient breed-the end products of careful experiment. Unlike the average horseman, who works at improving the breed, Geneticist Heinz Heck, the Hellabrunn Zoo's director, has spent most of his professional life looking backward. He created the ersatz tarpans by reversing the process of evolution...
...escape. Released and returned to England, he plays the Red hero and is lionized by the jackals of the party line. Most of them are arty fellow travelers from the Bloomsbury set, and their spirits are as dank as their cellar studio apartments. Black sheep sons of wealthy parents, ersatz painters and poets, they are all fighters with the mouth who like to play at social revolution between bouts of faddish chitchat and casual fornication...
...nations' annual coal outputs, totaling 220 million tons, and their steel production of 38 million tons, by freeing labor to meet manpower supply & demand without passports, by crushing the tight cartels that keep production low and prices high, the Coal-Steel Community could liberate Europeans from ration cards, ersatz clothing, queues and slums. It might also blaze the trail towards a politically united Europe, free of ugly nationalisms, and able to support itself...
Through the troubled years of World Wars I and II, many German Lutherans looked wistfully back at Luther's position on confession. Church leaders winced at the "ersatz attempts" by their parishioners to cure their souls through the medical therapy of psychiatrists. Said Bishop Hanns Lilje of Hanover: "This proved that modern men need individual consolation and strength and reminded the church of the wholesome and blessed institution of individual confession...
...politics simply would not stay out of sight. Pilgrims from the East Zone, plodding in faded clothes and ersatz shoes, gaped at the evidences of prosperity in West Berlin...