Word: ersatz
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...into a tiny, grim cell in Alexanderplatz prison, deprived of even his eyeglasses "to prevent suicide," left strictly alone for three days-"the hardest and longest I ever spent." Thereafter grilled relentlessly, he was threatened but never tortured with "the brutal methods of the American police." Fed black bread, ersatz coffee, sour gruel and margarine, he was refused books and newspapers, exercised in goose step half an hour a week, received one bath in seven weeks. Shortly before his transfer to grimmer, notorious Moabit prison, a Gestapo man told him: "You will sit until you confess. You will soften...
...first of the 1942 cars was shown in Detroit last week. It contained nothing that could be called ersatz and very little in the way of substituted materials. The newcomer was a Hudson, previewed in Detroit's Masonic Temple for distributors and field...
...tobacco shops to get five cigarets, made, they say, of "sunburned grass." Women stand before candy stores to get the 20 pieces of candy allowed each person monthly. They have to visit seven or eight shops to add a vegetable or fruit to the potatoes and bread and ersatz coffee and 400 grams of meat allotted to each person per week...
...Clothing is tightly rationed and of bad quality. (A shirt can only be washed twice; wood-ersatz suits dry-clean into something that looks and feels like wood-ersatz...
...There is no leather or rubber to repair shoes. (New shoes, rationed, are of wood or ersatz...