Word: ja
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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June 28, 1518 was the name day of Pedro de Vargas in Jaén in Old Spain. It is also the opening date of one of the most torrid, non-stop adventure stories since Anthony Adverse. Captain from Castile begins with Pedro going to confession (he had slept through the Bishop's sermon, and kissed Catana Pérez). The book ends, 633 pages later, with Pedro's bride being prepared by her mother-in-law for the nuptial bed ("And breasts so haughty! . . . Such a figure, too; skin like marble. ... I don't wonder...
They looked so cold-were they comfortable? Nun ja, it was not nice. Too much noise in the hut. And the soup was too thin. But surely the camp authorities would arrange better quarters...
...little girls repeated after the teacher: "Do not answer Ja, say Oui, ma soeur. . . . Voici la table. Voilà le mur. Void le crucifix. This is the table. That is the wall. Here is the crucifix...
...grey, foggy day when he was sworn in by Army officers, Herr X looked nervous and tense, stared straight in front of him, spoke only when spoken to. A correspondent asked him: "Do you have a house here?" Herr X answered carefully: "Ja, but it is not standing." As the oath of office was read aloud, he listened attentively, solemnly responded: "Ja." Next day Herr X climbed into a captured German car and drove into his bomb-scarred municipality in search of equally reliable citizens to be his councilors, civil officers, policemen. As Bürgermeister, his own authority will...
...bandaged head, sweeping his submachine gun toward the four of us and the civilians. "Yes," answered an officer. "Separate these four." The soldier ordered the four of us to line up against the back wall of the house. "But we are American and British officers," I protested in German. "Ja, ja, ja," bellowed the soldier, and pushed me toward the wall...