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...protest the "JA" election which was foisted upon the student body by the Student Council today. On the ballot, under the heading "University-Wide" Food Conservation Poll" the student body was told, in a more three paragraphs, of all the wonderful things a "yes" vote would accomplish. Nothing appeared on the ballot to state the case for a "no" vote...
...picture of Russian MPs rounding up some black marketeers. A crowd of Germans formed out of nowhere to see the fun. ". . . Off to the jug he was marched while the Germans guffawed. Perhaps, I thought, they saw their first glimmer of hope in this little incident. In the end - Ja? - the Russians and Americans would never understand each other, never get along. If so, that was a German chance...
...Ja," replied the woman, tears streaming down her cheeks...
...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...