Word: goulash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looked like a magnificent mulatsdg.* In Budapest's carnival-bright streets, workers danced the csdrdds and the rumba, while youngsters jitterbugged. In parks, tents had been set up for the distribution of goulash and other delicacies; beer flowed as fast as it once did at Tammany picnics. Communist Boss Matyas Rakosi had ordered weeks of countrywide fun and frolic to get the voters into the proper mood for Hungary's national elections. As in all such well-run Communist affairs, there was no opposition; the communist "People's Independence Front" presented a single list of candidates...
Equally sincerely, two days later, the government announced the results, which surprised nobody: 96.5% of the voters had cast their ballot for the Communist regime. The People's Front bowed to the duly expressed will of the majority. The Reds folded their goulash tents and sent their brass bands home. The mulatsdg was over...
...supervised by a trained young man or woman proctor. All go to school from 8 to 12:30 every weekday. Afternoons are spent in games or chores. Meals are as good as the average German fare-two light meals a day and one "big" dinner (such as broth, goulash, sauerkraut, potatoes, plum pudding...
Like the "veal" on another menu, the "Hungarian goulash" around the corner, the prime roasts and shepherd's pies at still other restaurants, the lady's pate had been, a few days earlier, a long-legged foal romping after a chestnut mother not long retired from a dairy cart. Last week it was still illegal in Britain to kill horses under seven years old for food or serve it in restaurants if other meat was available...
...Hungarians are especially interested in Esperanto because their language is so far removed from any other, except Finnish and Estonian. Only two words derived from the Hungarian -goulash and coach-are in common use in English...