Word: polese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bell Labs, looking ahead, is experimenting with them for charging the storage batteries of rural tele 'hone lines. Frames of them set on poles at Americus, Ga. are performing well, but Bell is worried about the effects of indifferent birds and stone-throwing boys.
In this new Russian offensive no inconsistency embarrassed them, no reversal deterred them. Satellites were left floundering in confusion. The Hungarian press struck out of the Belgrade communiqué the clause referring to the several roads of Communism, printed it next day only on direct Russian orders. The Communist Poles...
Chicago's sculptors rallied to stave off the threat to a potential source of work for their profession. The city's chapter of Artists Equity thumbed through the city's records and found that "excluding cannons, boulders, flag poles, totem poles, chains and fire relics," there were...
These two works--the first informal, current and American, the second formal, historical, and Japanese--represent distinct poles in Reischauer's career. For he is a scholar constantly concerned with current problems, a former government consultant who remained at all times an "academician" and a thoroughly American varsity tennis player...
Too often biography is a poor compromise between conflicting aims. The author, hoping to evaluate personality, setting, and significance, is apt to fly off in all directions, leaving little or no impression of his work as a whole, or more probably lapse into a one-sideness which sacrifices accuracy for...