Word: kowalski
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Midway in the voting, rolypoly Speaker Wladislaw Kowalski rang for order. Gravely he announced: "Some of you have been putting ballots into the basket openly. This is a secret vote. You must fold your ballots, so your choice cannot be seen...
Polish-born Reshevsky, 35, a former child chess prodigy who is now a Boston accountant, lets his more impetuous opponents beat themselves. One of them, Stephen Kowalski, was so confused by Reshevsky's tactics that he failed to think up the required 45 moves in two and a quarter hours, and was counted out. Champion Reshevsky never plays chess between tournaments; during them, however, he keeps his mind on chess night & day. His wife, who is just learning the game (out of a book; he won't teach her), says that she has to be very careful...
When one pine-marked trench was opened, Red Cross girls descended, pawed over 250 corpses so decomposed that they were no longer horrible. They called to men with notebooks: "One handkerchief marked with a K, one pair of glasses." Then, enthusiastically, "Here is his passport, his name is Piotr Kowalski." In another trench was all that was mortal of Mieczyslaw Niedzialkowski, a Warsaw Socialist editor who had loved strong argument and strong drink and who, in 1939, had organized the workers' brigades that helped defend his city. Last week the workmen built him a little coffin and laid...
Cymbals & Silence. When Bierut and his Warsaw colleagues (Osubka-Morawski, Kowalski and Gomulka) arrived at Moscow's airport, they were greeted by Foreign Commissar Molotov, Vice Commissar Vyshinsky, Politburo brass hats and a vast blare of tubas, trumpets, cymbals and drums...