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Word: squarehead (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Israel calls the German Jew a yecki (roughly: squarehead), laughs at his naiveté. Many of the yecki are physicians (of that great, devoted band of German-Jewish doctors) and they have a hard time adjusting to the land. Many try chicken farming, going about it in that highly scientific Teuton way which makes the Polish and Russian Israelis guffaw. They say that when one yecki found a sick chicken he sent all the way to India for a serum, inoculated every one of his flock. They tell of a yecki with an old dry cow who asked a Polish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: The Watchman | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

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