Word: liverwurst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West German city of Braunschweig owes its reputation to a pair of dissimilar products: smoked liverwurst and Rolleiflex cameras. To the dismay of the 48-year-old family firm of Rollei-Werke, Franke & Heidecke, the cameras have proved the more perishable of the two. Although Rollei's famed twin-lens reflex practically revolutionized photography when it was introduced in 1929, business began to go stale in the late '50s when its patents ran out, cheap imitations rolled in, and Rollei was caught without new developments...
...Left now talks of him the way angry West Germans talked of Peter Fechter, who was killed by East German border guards at the Berlin Wall five years ago. West Berlin's police chief (since furloughed) hardly helped matters when he called the anti-Shah crowd "a liverwurst . . . You press it in the middle to squeeze it out at the end." To the distress of the student leaders, Brandt refused to condemn the club-swinging Berlin cops...
...involve the captain, giggling and wriggling under ribbons and rouge, in some transvestite titillations that are altogether too sweaty for comfort. And in the last reel he runs through one of those big silly battle sequences in which six Yanks take on 600 Germans, slice them up like liverwurst, recapture the village without a casualty. Daddy, in a word, found war hellarious...
...also constantly upset at life's imbalances. He is dispirited to find cars, not deer, at deer crossings; and when his thoughts drift to Howard Johnson's-a direction that Frazier's corpus rarely takes -they are wistful. "If only Howard Johnson's would serve liverwurst sandwiches!" On the other hand, suitable equations gladden his heart. "Tell the truth now-don't you think Pat Brown and California deserve each other...