Word: poled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...already aware of Adenauer's delicate probing, Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka replied with quick and indelicate firmness. Said he: "The Western territories are a matter of life and death to Poland, and every Pole is aware of this. If anybody raises the problem of changing our Western frontiers, there is only one alternative -that of war." Gomulka's bellicosity may only be an opening gambit in a lengthy bargaining, but it is also in character with Communist Gomulka's concern these days to show Moscow that he is making no deals behind its back...
Following the long antarctic night, the sun rose over the U.S. base at the South Pole last week, and Polar Explorer Paul Siple (TIME cover, Dec. 31, 1956) led 17 scientists and servicemen into the open for the reveille that comes there technically only once every six months. With the temperature at a numbing -88° and an 18-knot wind blowing across the polar wastes, the ceremonial hoisting of Old Glory turned out to be about the most frenzied since the famed planting of the flag under fire at Iwo Jima...
Dick Williams, a pole vaulter on the varsity track team, won the University Handicap race along the Charles yesterday afternoon. Running with a five minute handicap, Williams defeated Phil Robertson, a sophomore hurdler, by about five yards...
...Foghorn Voice." Murrow, who lives on Park Avenue and gets his suits from a Savile Row tailor, started out, on April 25, 1908, named Egbert, the son of a tenant farmer, in a log-slab house near Pole Cat Creek in North Carolina's Guilford County, twelve miles south of Greensboro. He was the youngest of Ethel and Roscoe Murrow's three boys. The eldest, Lacy, rose to be an Air Force brigadier general in the 18th Tactical Air Command, and is now a transportation consultant in Washington. The other, Dewey, is a contractor in Spokane...
Another symbol of this nationalistic hate for the Russians is the church, Brzezinski stated. He related a story currently popular among the Poles. "During the consecration service in a church, the entire congregation save one is religiously kneeling. Others around him ask why he too is not kneeling. 'I am an atheist,' the man replies. 'Why are you here, then?' they ask. 'I am a Pole and I hate the Russians," he replies...