Word: eh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pleaded, "my kidneys make me very sore at night. What shall I do?" "Big old fool," snapped Réal, "I am fed up. You have a cancer." He ran from the room shouting to his father: "We are going to have 700 cars Sunday. Money will come in, eh, Papa?" Papa pulled the boy back into the room. Réal then told the woman to pray. As she left, she put a $10 bill in the center of the table...
...train finally pulled in, the passengers eagerly clambered aboard. Soviet-controlled Radio Berlin began an on-the-spot broadcast, with Werner Klein, its star reporter, poking the mike under passengers' noses and shooting questions. "And where are you going, young man?" he asked a scared, blond youth. "Essen, eh? Just came here to visit your parents. Where do they live? American sector, eh? How did you get here?" The youth hesitated. "Illegally, eh?" chuckled Klein. "But you are very glad that you can now go back in comfort on such a good train, aren't you? That...
...Potsdamer Platz last week, an old man creakily stooped to retrieve a cigarette butt. He expressed the city's skepticism: "New rumors, eh? Ha, they're all just like soap bubbles-too shiny to be true." Near Tempelhof airdrome, where the U.S. and British planes were still droning in, a student scoffed: "The Russians are bluffing again...
...Bazouges-du-Désert, red-cheeked Farmer Fernand Juban explained: "I'll tell you. We farmers are difficult to separate from our money, especially by the government. That is true all over the world. Is it not? Eh bien, what we want is just liberty, just plain ordinary liberty...
...Captain MacWilliams banged into the C.N.A.C. ready room at Shanghai's Lunghua airport. He went up to a blue-suited Chinese at a long counter marked "Briefing." "You going to Suchow, eh?" said the Chinese. Then, in a positive tone, he added: "Suchow will fall in the near future...