Word: nein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anything still secret in Bonn?" Konrad Adenauer once asked in exasperation. The answer then was nein - and it probably still is today. Both citizens and foreigners in West Germany are frequently accused of being spies. That jaunty journalist is charged behind his back with being in the pay of the KGB, the Soviet secret police. This hovering waiter is suspected of eavesdropping for the CIA. All government secretaries, of course, are thought to nip out at lunchtime with top-secret letters to be photographed by enemy agents...
...bill will now go to the Bundesrat, the upper house, where it probably will have swift passage. In the Bundestag, there may be some opposition from the Bavarian affiliates of the Christian Democrats, one of whose ministers cast the sole nein vote in the Cabinet session. But the majority of the Bundestag seemed prepared to endorse the Grand Coalition's plan to shift the guilt in Germany more specifically upon the shoulders of those who actually committed the crimes...
...drastic way of righting the balance by putting the undervalued mark on a par with the dollar and the pound. In effect, however, that would raise the prices of Germany's exports, perhaps crippling its vital auto industry. Recently, Schiller responded to persistent revaluation rumors by snapping, "Nein, no, non, nyetl" He means that Germany is not about to pull down its own house-especially when others have yet to put their own economic households in order...
...Nein. Not only are qualified candidates not applying; Vienna has not even been able to press anybody into service. Metropolitan Opera General...
...presidents have we had whose name began with R. Never have we had one whose name begins with N. Think of n: negative, nothing, negligent, nebulous, No, nein, nyet...