Word: wurst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sedists know that this time, as Berlin slang puts it, "Es geht um die Wurst" ("The sausage is at stake," meaning: this is it)..The elections (at which Berliners will choose 130 city councillors and 805 district assemblymen) are Germany's first to be supervised jointly by all four occupying powers. This means that, for once, SED will have to compete honestly with its rival parties (the Liberals, Christian Democrats and Social Democrats). Even without joint central control, in Russian zone elections last month SED polled only a bare 52% majority...
...spot habitues advise acting "sweet to the waitress, and maybe she'll come through." If this attack is not successful, someone has commented that at the Wurst House on Boylston Street, you can get a pack of Chelseas from the bartender if you give him, just like with toothpaste, a used and empty package...
...parents reached the U.S. from the Ukraine. He studied abnormal psychology at Northwestern University, graduated in depression-ridden 1931, found jobs scarce. A man able to face facts, he forthwith entered his father's sausage business in Chicago. As office manager, his chief contribution was a slogan: "Our Wurst Is The Best...