Word: ze
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...instead of going into bankruptcy, the Israelis are celebrating what they call a boomchik. Recently, in the midst of the Jews' annual Succoth harvest festival, Finance Minister Ze'ev Sharef officially hailed the end of the three-year economic downturn. "All signs show that we have finally overcome stagnation," he said. "There are no longer any real obstacles to our development...
Pickled okra. Spinach soufflé. Double divinity. Et, mon Dieu, ze bar-bé-cue! Escoffier would have turned in his grave. Last week White House Chef René Verdon, who is only mortal, turned in his apron instead...
...Story Thus Far: Biff Bundie, University undercoverman disguised as graduate student Kevin Stoddard Health, found himself investigating a bizarre murder in Mallinckrodt from a novel angle: a mysterious phrase--"Ze Bronts Rhinot-across"--spoken hurriedly over the phone by a foreigner. After unsuccessfully trying to convince a Cliffie that it was a coffee shop, Biff decided that The Bronze Rhinoceros must be the nickname of a professor, and he spent an afternoon trailing Karandas Nathasingh, a portly instructor in Indian Studies. Eventually, Bundle learned that The Bronze Rhinoceros was one of a pair of large statue outside the Biology Labs...
...trall of a small, nervous foreigner, whom Biff had reason to believe was involved in the hideous murder which had just been discovered in a chemistry lab in Mallinckrodt. At headquarters, Bundle received a phone call from the stranger, who told Biff to meet him at once, muttering cryptically, "ze bronts rhinotseross." When Bundle's immediate notion that the Bronze Rhinoceros was a coffee house proved incorrect, he became convinced that the phrase was an undergraduate nickname for some favored professor. Just at that moment, Biff noticed an immense, dark-skinned man lumbering down the University Hall steps...
...Zair iss danchur. You musst meet me at vunce." There was a short pause, then there hastily whispered words: "Ze Bronts Rhinotseross!" This was followed by a sharp click...