Word: nein
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first proposal to bring together Germany and her Western neighbors, Schumacher replied: "No! to all [such] conservative, clerical, capitalist, cartelist attempts." The Schuman Plan is a near-relative of a proposal Kurt Schumacher has long urged, "socialized integration" of Western Europe's industry, but Schumacher issued a steely nein to the Schuman Plan because there was no socialism in it. "Federation," he argued, "must not be confused with a syndicate of private interests...
...dangerous rabble-rouser nor neo-nationalist he seems, but a savior of Germany. They excuse his violent speeches. Often, they say, he will descend from a rostrum shaking his head and murmuring, "Well, I believe that I was again somewhat too sharp." His byword, they insist, is not nein, but ja, aber so nicht-which means "yes, but not this way." Schumacher himself professes to be hurt that the West misunderstands him so. Can't they see that his party is pure, and that the big Ruhr industrialists who once helped Hitler are the men behind Adenauer...
Germany's Russian-zone Communists this week staged one of the most successful Hitler-style ja elections in history. Citizens were free to vote either ja or nein to a single list of candidates. They were free to vote out in the open where Communist checkers could see them, or to go into a polling booth. Catch was that Communist election workers noted the names of all who used the polling booths. Fearing Communist reprisals, nearly all East Germans voted out in the open and voted...
...results were not surprising. Less than 24 hours after the election, the Soviet East-zone radio announced that of 12,331,905 eligible to vote, 98.4% cast their ballot. Of these, 12,088,745 voted for the official list and only 35,544 voted nein...
From the businessmen came shouts of "nein, nein." Replied McCloy sharply: "Well, anyway, U.S. taxes are much higher than before because of German aggression...