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Word: wacht (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same old story. The Lisbon plane always descends like a kid's toy landing on the living-room rug. Stick-figure Nazis in animal faces (Strasser a wolf, his aide a fat little pig in glasses) come strutting off. That night at Rick's they chorus Die Wacht am Rhein, the stein-swinging bully song that is the Nazis' idea of a good time in a nightclub. The defiantly answering Marseillaise stirs the soul and raises its Pavlovian goose bumps for the 15th time. They still pronounce "exit visa" weirdly: "exit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: We'll Always Have Casablanca | 12/27/1982 | See Source »

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