Word: polese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beetle v. Geoid. If the earth were a perfect sphere, he says, it would not be stable on its axis. The "smallest beetle crawling over it would change the axis of rotation in relation to markings on the sphere" because there would be no force to resist the kickback of...
Stalin quickly countered: "There are some very good people among the Poles. They are good fighters." He tossed in a consolation bone: to show how fair the Polish elections would be, he would see to it that Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, sturdy Polish Peasant Party leader and chief hope for a free...
The Yalta agreement gave Stalin no territory his armies did not take. But it gave him what he wanted. So shocked were the Poles at the action of the Western powers that the Communists were able to fasten their grip on Poland without meeting dangerous resistance. By now, most of...
The Polish lesson was not lost on the Hungarians, Slovaks, Bulgarians, Rumanians and Czechs. If the Poles, Eastern Europe's stoutest fighters for freedom, could not count on the West, what hope for the others? Inexorably, the Communist grip upon all of them tightened.
Sir Winston singled out the remark attributed to him about Poland ("I do not care much about the Poles myself"). "I do not at all accept it," he said. "My record throughout the war . . . will show with what deep sympathy I viewed the fate of the people of Poland." Churchill...