Word: thingamajig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wildly inaccurate: U.S. sales to Japan and Canada alone in 1962 totaled almost twice as much as its $3.6 billion in exports to the Common Market. With Britain's exclusion, said le grand Charles, the U.S. is now "making use of England" to create "a vast new trade thingamajig with the Irish, the Icelanders, and so forth." Then De Gaulle turned his remarks to the West Germans, for whom he had some advice on how to govern themselves. "What is needed in Germany," he declared, "is a constitution that would permit it to face modern conditions." (Germany...