Word: poled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...April which will give the Dutch $15 of revenue for every $1 the U.S. gets in return. The latest: a route across the U.S. for Australia's Qantas Airlines which will produce at least $4,000,000 annually in return for concessions (including a route over the South Pole for the U.S.) that U.S. airmen flatly call "worthless...
...blunt, things are chaotic. Housing is miserable and overcrowded. Wages are so low (average: $65 a month) that many a Pole works overtime at two jobs, puts his wife and children to work, or steals what he can from the state-run enterprises, to stay alive. Gomulka had hoped that "creeping freedom" and his stand against the hated Russians would be enough to inspire the Poles to work...
...secret police. Yet he is not a devoted Bolshevik, simply a self-dramatizing wreck of a man without faith, family or country. His only love on earth is a prostitute called Lola (also a secret agent on the side). His condition is well understood by an ex-Catholic Pole, a sadist beast named Kowalski, who taunts Brennan with the knowledge that in following a dream of heaven on earth, he has lost honor on earth and all hope of heaven. A true nihilist, Kowalski knows himself as a "lost lackey'' of Stalin...
...vast silence fell over the Northern Hemisphere. And now the dust is coming south, covering the earth as uniformly as a bandage wrapped with slow deliberation around an orange. Scientists estimate that it will take about nine months to envelop the Southern Hemisphere from the equator to the pole. Then the earth will be merely another dead planet following its lonely orbit around...
...week of other meetings, other speeches, other trips to see sights that were variants upon the struggle for rule of law: the Tower of London, where Sir Thomas More, great lawyer and judge, was imprisoned by Henry VIII before his head was cut off, parboiled, and impaled upon a pole on London Bridge for several months for all to see; the Inns of Court, in which were trained not only centuries of English jurists but also six signers of the Declaration of Independence-Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward Jr., Thomas Lynch Jr., Arthur Middleton, Thomas M'Kean and William Paca...