Word: schweizer
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...Switzerland an eyewitness fresh from Germany told the Schweizer Bauzeitung: "Air raids have had a terrible effect. Western Germany just celebrated its 10,000th alert. Recently some towns had alerts 36 nights running. Everywhere you see destroyed houses, while factories show little damage. Factories are repaired immediately after attack, but houses are left in ruins to be rebuilt after the war. Despite all Germany's military successes, there is no trace of confidence among the people. All they want is peace." The German civilian Luftschutz (air defense) organization had changed its name to Selbstschutz (self-defense), was conscripting everyone...
...black flies." The Quito train was small, baroque and red with "banisters . . . that belong to an old brownstone house." Restaurant signs en route read: Hays Krim (Ice Cream), Airistiu (Irish Stew) and Wide Navel Wiski (White Label Whisky). In a hotel, whose walls were papered with copies of the Schweizer Hausfrau, he could read useful pointers on the cure of hemorrhoids and on what to do if encumbered with a hat, an umbrella and a lighted cigar when approaching a lady...