Word: unser
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...schools on the wild New Guinea coast, and they had raised the black New Guinea children in the ways of God. They were Germans, of course, but they were Lutheran Germans. When they sang, their song was some fine old Lutheran hymn like Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott (A Mighty Fortress...
...plays Falstaff both because it is good politics and because he likes the role. "Look at me!" he roars, slapping his enormous stomach. "I have lost pounds in the service of the country. Why do you complain at cutting down your meals a little?" It makes no difference to unser Hermann or his people that the 40 pounds he lost last year (270 to 230) were for vanity, not country...
...number of students paraded through the dining hall with an effigy of "Adolph Hurttler, Unser Fushrer" on their shoulders. Several of the men carried signs such as "Kirkland Kentzentration Kampf--Adolph Hurtt, Prop.," "Hire Only Deaf-Mutes," "The Kirkland Gestapo Dictates the Law (the Sanctimonious Sycophants!)" and "Vexation Without Representation...
...Berliners . . . speak of Stalin as unser neues, liebes Vetterchen ('our new, dear little cousin'). In Frankfurt there was quiet amusement that Hitler's Mein Kampf has been ordered to be withheld from circulation by the public libraries there-until a new edition, with all the scurrilous references to Russia and the Bolsheviks withdrawn, is published...
...call him unser Shakespeare...