Word: polese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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One of the oldest tricks of political self-preservation is shooting the (fire) works. With food prices skyhigh, unsanitary housing, insufficient transportation, Poles rioting, Hungarians grumbling, Chinese thinking, a guy has to do something to stay in business ; Nikita therefore had to shoot the sputnik to give them something to...
"Free Speech!" Most Poles seemed to regard the riots as a strictly student affair. Biggest unknown was whether the students' protests would be taken up by Poland's well-organized and politically conscious factory workers, who had been in the forefront of the Poznan rebellion. If they were...
To welcome back their revered altar, 6,000 devout Poles thronged the 13th century Roman Catholic church and the small square outside one day in August while a solemn Mass of thanksgiving was offered. And for good reason. Cracow's altar is not only the largest Gothic altar in...
There the Poles set out to restore the masterpiece to its original state. They injected chemicals into the figures to kill the termites that infested the wood, filled thousands of holes left by the insects, and then, with skillfully wielded knives, attacked five centuries of paint. Art Expert Marian Slonecki...
Totem poles and pews of silent men,