Word: polese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, as Siamese energy and money combined to lift the face of Bangkok, telephone poles were uprooted along all of the city's main roads and moved back to make the cluttered highways passable to the expected influx of conference limousines. Eighty thousand flowering shrubs were brought in...
Architect Hermann Field, member of the U.S.'s most disappearing family, arrived in London with his wife Kate for a reunion with his sons, Alan, 9, and Hugh, 6. He had not seen them since 1949, when he plunged behind the Iron Curtain to hunt for his missing brother...
The Viet Minh propaganda line on the 800,000 Vietnamese who have fled to the south is that they were forced by their priests to leave, and are now anxious to return. In Hanoi, the Communists faked hundreds of complaints from refugee families and sent them to the International Control...
Prisoners wear quilted uniforms, men in blue, women in black. The uniforms of political prisoners are stenciled, top and bottom, with combinations of numerals and letters which tell prison officials at a glance the prisoner's history. No histories could be more varied. The camps contain Old Bolsheviks who...
The captain neither agreed nor resisted when Scotland Yard men took Eisler off the Batory at Southampton. For this, when he docked at Gdynia, Cwiklinski sat through a palm-sweating grilling with his bosses and the dreaded U.B. (for Urzad Bezpieczenstwa), Poland's secret police.* On the return trip...