Word: ja
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...indeed," was as suspect as an Ephraimite. Dresden's cops had forbidden under threat of fine the use of Jawohl as a typically Nazi version of Yes. Germans untainted with Naziism, said the authorities, should content themselves with the plain, unvarnished Ja...
...that "no one is ever quite sure whether she is stupid or lethargic." She was born above her father's drugstore in the old German section of South St. Louis, and brought up in so deeply Germanic an environment that she still punctuates her conversations with ach and ja...
...every week. By the sixth chorus of the initial piece, "Darktown Strutters Ball," it had become apparent to the bystanders that here was an occurrence above and beyond the usual order of things. From thence and in the following order "Sweet Sue," "Blues in B Flat," "Tea for two," "Ja Da," and "The Sheik" were attacked. One of the reed men, a startling cross between Johnny Dodds and Joe Marsala blasted out a machine gun-like obligatto in answer to the adept growlings of the slip horn, while the cornetist, feeling no doubt that he was being attacked from both...
...Monday morning Russia proudly announced that 77.7% had voted Ja. Hitler had trained the Saxons well...
...French. "You go home," he barked. French went; he had his picture. He sassed Rumania's Queen Marie when she asked him: "Don't you ever shave?" Retorted French: "Say, I been following you for the last coupla days at 60 miles an hour. When d'ja think I'd have time to shave?" Sent to photograph a prize canary, French whirled the bird around his head until it was groggy enough to hold still for a picture...