Word: verbotener
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Nowhere has this struggle for acceptance caused so many problems but eventually given more satisfaction than in the school systems surrounding Cambridge. Politically, Harvard University and all it stands for is verboten in many of these towns; an alliance with Harvard is an alliance with "rich snobs," "fairies," "vandals," and fewer votes. An alliance with Harvard students--in this case PBH--is unthinkable...
...ironic sequel to West Germans' hopes of "belonging to the world" is that GERMANS GO HOME signs have sprouted in Europe, largely as a result of a few ruthless speculators who boost prices, and the selfish Germans who despoil the scenery with barbed wire and Verboten signs. In Ireland, where onetime SS Hero Otto Skorzeny now raises prizewinning lambs, the clergy has even tried to persuade farmers that it is "patriotic" not to sell their land. One indignant priest, who had twice been chased off a German-owned beach, complained from the pulpit: "Has the day really come when...
...nudism has enjoyed a spectacular boom since the end of World War II. As prosperous Germans have been able to afford more and better clothes, they yearned all the more to take them off-except, of course, in austerely Communist East Germany, where even collective nudism is verboten...
Last week, all that was verboten. The Communists curtly refused appeals by West Berlin's senate and the German Red Cross for an easing of border restrictions during the holidays. As distinct from West Berliners, West Germans can still enter East Berlin if they have sufficient stamina and persistence. Hundreds lined up as Vopos pawed over their grey identification cards. "Do you always have to wait this long?" asked a man in the queue. A woman answered: "No. They're just making it hard for us. They want us to think twice before we come here again...