Word: wurst
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have to dodge ever more midget cars of workers, piled high with blanket rolls and suitcases, headed for weekend campsites along the Rhine. The West German Hausfrau roams through gleaming supermarkets to choose such exotic imports as avocado pears and Chinese litchi nuts, along with the regular order of Wurst. Her leather-jacketed, blue-jeaned offspring, the Americanized German youth, seeks his fun in ice cream shops or "Jazz Bar'' record stores, or atop his own noisy motorbike...
...foreigner, led to believe that the Germans "live, eat and sleep reunification," is somewhat surprised to see that the average West German today is living a hyperactive life of his own, eating generous helpings of Wurst and Sauerkraut, and sleeping very well. The "German economic miracle" has been somewhat over-emphasized, but as one walks down Dusseldorf's Konigstrasse or Munich's Kaufingerstrasse it is obvious that the German is again living very well. And it is not difficult to understand that after five years of war and ten of rebuilding, he is very loath to give up his present...
...rations, smoked up his cigarettes and bedded down at night in the bottom of one of his boats. He considered his General Orders, especially No. 5: "To quit my post only when properly relieved." Germans in the nearby village of Ginsheim discovered him, and fed him Wurst, sauerkraut, sandwiches and beer. It began to rain; he moved into an abandoned shack near his boats...