Word: ersatz
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...entertaining and well-made as a little more working time could make them. They are just the humble small change of American cinema. But the change, however small, is honest coin; whereas too many of cinema's million-dollar checks are signed in invisible ink and made of ersatz rubber...
...learned editorial the science-minded New York Times painstakingly picked flaws in the sun-gun idea, concluded austerely: "There is reason ... to believe that the rocket experts were merely dreaming over their ersatz beer." But what the Germans had already done was amazing enough.*Lieut. Colonel Keck'revealed a long list of discovered Nazi contraptions. Items...
...London Times, which meticulously records the first cuckoos in Hyde Park and the first primroses in Kew, chronicled another notable event: the first real ice cream since the war began. Hitherto the Government permitted Britons to trifle with limited quantities of an ersatz product made with powdered milk. Last week's relaxation of all bans moved the Times to moralize magnificently...
...Need more ersatz goods (wooden toys, non-ration type shoes) to fill the wide craters blasted in their inventories by the barrage of Christmas shopping...
Weather did not halt the German ersatz air force of pilotless V-bombs, and by last week Allied commanders were willing to concede that the V-bombs had true military value when coupled with an offensive. The Germans fired salvos of V15 and V-25, and a shorter-ranged, smaller version of V-2 as they would have used heavy artillery in advance of an assault. Their effectiveness was obvious: even haphazard strikes could do military damage aplenty in junction towns crowded with men and materials. The enemy claimed to have poured them on Antwerp, Brussels...