Word: heil
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...Last week the German Dancing Teachers Association offered its suggestions on proper conduct. The teachers recommended clapping and cries of "Königin Elizabeth," with curtsying as "optional." Just in case a relative of the Kaisers might induce any other anachronisms, the association nervously suggested that "the word 'Heil' as an expression of joy should be avoided for reasons of tact...
...there till 1956, before moving to the U.S. However, a good many people I meet just won't let me forget my "past." Somehow they blame me for Auschwitz and World War II. To those who can't bury their old hate, my reply is not "Sieg Heil" but an expression I heard Mr. Truman use-"Go to hell...
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...Room. Then, five minutes before the world and the movie end, Strangelove bursts into sadistic glee. He spits out macabre suggestions for preserving human life in mine shafts, smiles hideously behind his dark glasses, clicks his teeth together rapidly, and finally breaks into a series of spasmodic "Heil Hitler...
...Liechtensteins actually live in Liechtenstein. Indeed, it was not until 1937 that a hereditary ruler actually made his home in the drafty, 13th century family fortress, whose battlements rise starkly above the capital of Vaduz (pronounced Vah-dootz). There last week, amid eulogies and thunderous renditions of Heil Liechtenstein, Franz Josef II Maria Aloys Alfred Karl Johannes Heinrich Michael Georg Ignatius Benediktus Gerhardus Majella, its twelfth reigning prince, observed his 57th birthday and the 25th anniversary of his accession to the throne...