Word: aleja
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...group of young men who tried to separate the cops from the drunk were quickly joined by habitues of the Pod Jeleniem and Pod Gryfem bars and the Centralna and Magnolia cafes. Soon the Aleja Wojska Polskiego was crowded with 2,000 grim, destruction-bent Stettiners. Out of the intense anti-Soviet feeling that floods Poland today came a focus for their violence: Stettin's Soviet consulate. Soon the mob had broken into that building, wrecked and looted its contents. Only when the Stettin Communist Party committee called in sober-minded shipyard workers, students and local militiamen were...
...Neighbors. Nowhere in divided Poland was the pattern of these scenes clearer than in a six-story limestone apartment building at No. 16 Aleja Szucha (Warsaw's Pennsylvania Avenue), where two prominent Poles reside in two modest flats. One was little-known Jakub Berman, Under Secretary of State without Portfolio (but with plenty of jobs), one of the most powerful members of Poland's Communist ruling clique. The other was lantern-jawed, indomitable Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, leader of the anti-Communist Polish Peasant Party who, of all Polish public figures today, enjoys perhaps the highest popularity and the lowest...
Boulevardeurs discussed the news over cafe tables placed beneath the lime-trees of the broad Ujazdowska Aleja. Polish Jews rubbed expectant palms over their newspapers in the tumbledown Stare Miasto quarter. Money was coming to Poland, the headlines told, much money, three hundred millions of dollars...
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