Word: werk
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Lithgow avoids reducing Ellard to a Georgian stereotype. His wide chewy expressions and drawly English lessons--"Bah-urd" for board, "Faw-Werk" for fork--are hilarious. But Lithgow also convinces the audience of Ellard's softness and struggle to learn the language he teaches...
When Toni Schmücker became chief executive of Volkswagen werk A.G. in February 1975, a reporter asked him what he thought of his new office. "Great!" replied Schmücker. "Great rugs, great pictures, a great many workers and great losses." It was an accurate description at the time, but since then Volkswagen has turned around sharply enough to enhance Schmücker's growing reputation as the Herr Fix-It of German industry. Two weeks ago, Schmücker, 56, reported that in 1976 the company had cleared a profit of $425 million, which, with tax credits...
...TOUN Who was a ful and fayre solempne man, But coude no more abyde al this speche And set about his own manere to teche. Seyde he that evyle was stille synn And synn, an evyle always hadde been. And so the werre wageth al aroune Whyle clerkes werk goes merrily aloune Eek I will pace its proces day by day And haply holpen it aloune the way. J.K. Dane...
...week. Colonel De Long's brainchild had grown into $84 million worth of docks, oil rigs and seaborne platforms around the world. Consolidated Edison built one into Manhattan's East River to receive 750 tons of coal per hour for generating electricity. Now De Long is at werk with five other companies on a $21 million contract to lay a five-mile-long sewer outfall into the Pacific off Los Angeles. And the success to date is only a starter. The Coast Guard wants prices on De Long platforms to replace 25 antiquated lightships off U.S. coasts. Another...
...twelve Lamers children were coming home, the 14 Branderhorst children, and others like them, were leaving Holland. Said Simon Eygenraam, en route with his wife and four children to "New Holland" on the Volendam: "There must be opportunities for people like us die niet bang zijn voor hard werk [who are not afraid to work hard], and at least we won't be crowded out of a living. Sure, it's a big risk to go off like this, but it would be a bigger risk to stay...