Word: vater
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relentless sweep of his untutorable mind. A brooding Kaplan caps a lecture on etymology with the thrust, "Aren't eny voids in English fromm England?" Here is the man to bandy homely inapposite proverbs with a Khrushchev: ''Som pipple can drown in a gless of vater." It is he who gives the principal parts of "to eat" as "eat, ate, full," and only Mr. Kaplan could conceive of the generalissimo of Nationalist China as "Shanghai Jack." The world of science straggles beside Mr. Kaplan's inventive agility; he defines "diameter" as a machine that counts dimes...
...goodbye dem Vater Rhein...
Christian Vogel, pale and tired, climbed the stairs to his fourth-floor flat in Offenbach, an industrial suburb of Frankfurt. Silently he tossed a blue envelope on the table. His seven-year-old daughter looked puzzled. "Was ist los, Mutti?" she asked. Said her mother: "Dein Vater ist entlassen" (Your father is fired...