Word: frankreich
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...Muhabbet and seven background singers, Steinmeier and Kouchner merely had to repeat the word Deutschland (Germany) over and over again, with a slight variation at the end where the word for Kouchner's sake - whose French accent added some extra exotic charm to the song - was substituted with Frankreich (France...
...German description of well-being is to live wie Gott in Frankreich -- like God in France. Whatever the yardstick for the good life, at least some of it still seems to be outside Germany. In pursuit of that grail, some 800,000 West Germans have established second homes abroad -- in Tuscany, along the Grande Corniche overlooking the Riviera, in the verdant valleys of South Tirol. They have also become the world's most traveled tourists: last year some 28 million West Germans took holidays abroad...
Though they have traditionally been noted for their frugality and discipline, West Germans today are grandly living, as they like to put it, wie Gott in Frankreich - like God in France. Wages are rising almost twice as fast as productivity, imports are climbing twice as fast as exports, and the government has been spending much more than it has collected in taxes. The cost of such xtravagance is West Germany's gaudi est inflation in 15 years. With consumer prices up almost 4% from a year ago, the German Hausfrau has to pay $1.08 for a dozen eggs...
...World War I, 850 officer POWs in the American camp at Richelieu (France) did not sing once during a whole year. But when they marched to the station September 1919, to return to Germany, a minority started a favorite song "Siegreich wollen wir Frankreich schlagen" ("Victorious we will beat the French...
...eminent scholar, the author of a book on Late Baroque and Roman Classicism. Since then he has written "Bauen in Frankreich, in Elison, in Eisenbeton" and "Bauen and Wohnen." For the last three years he has been writing a study of the whole social background of modern times in relation to modern trends in building...