Word: nein
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...weaponry, is expected to run $1 billion into the red. His own Christian Democratic ministers agreed that taxes would have to be raised to cover the costs of large purchases of U.S. weaponry. But Vice Chancellor Erich Mende and his three F.D.P. colleagues in the Cabinet cried "nein...
...headmaster at Kassel's esteemed art academy took one look at the messy paintbox presented by the tousle-haired young applicant. "Nein," said he. After all, would a violinist treat his instrument that way? It was a bad moment for the awkward Hessian farmer's son until he remembered a good school in Karlsruhe on the Rhine. There the examiner, with more tact, looked over the madcap paintings on cardboard, asked, "Do you really think we ought to take you?" "With my talent," the youth burst...
Neglected Conscience. Next day, at a caucus of the ruling Christian Democrats and their allies, Adenauer chided Erhard mercilessly for presuming to seek control of the government. When the Cabinet finally voted on Adenauer's demand that the Franco-German pact be ratified immediately, Erhard's nein was overwhelmingly defeated...
...projected with mastery; no less remarkable--for Schwarzkopf dearly loves a song in which she can be girlish and winning--was the sly humor of In dem Schatten meiner Locken ("In the shadow of my tresses, my lover fell asleep"), where the phrase "Weck'ich ihn nun auf? Ach nein!" ("Shall I wake him? Ah no"), repeated three times, was first coy, then a bit reproachful, and finally just the merest sigh of content. The Wolf group was lengthened by two encores, which Miss Schwarzkopf announced and (bless her!) translated: an exultant Ich hab' in Penna (a catalogue of lovers...
Rotterdam, Veeridam (ah, but the crew is cranky), Grande Dame (the liner she's), Rooseveltdam, Hotdam, Goddamn. Aphasia, Valeteria (founded in 1926), Ablaut, Umlaut, Nein and Ja (freight only...