Word: zais
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...Unique. The Zaiïrian example is of major interest to the industrial as well as the developing world. "Zaïre's folly is not so unique," observes an American businessman in Kinshasa, the capital. Third World countries as a group have piled up a foreign debt that is estimated to be as high as $150 billion; international conferences resound with cries for a moratorium or stretch-out of repayments on a large part of that debt. By mid-1976 U.S. banks alone had some $30 billion in outstanding loans to five nations-Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Peru...
Prime Minister Golda Meir gamely went through two elaborate welcoming ceremonies-the second one for Mobutu, who landed an hour after the other three in a DC-8 whose fuselage bore the freshly painted words Air Zai're to denote that he had changed the name of his country from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the Zai're Republic a week earlier. The same name change compelled the Israeli Foreign Ministry to revise all its programs and invitations. All told, it was a trying time for the ministry; when it ordered 400 flags, 100 for each...
...Banzai! Literally means "10,000 years" (ban: 10,000; zai: years). As Japs tell it to the Marines, it means "Long Live the Emperor!" or simply "Hooray...