Word: polese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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To help nature work for man, loggers now act as regulators of the natural reseeding process. For example, in cutting over an area of Douglas fir, they fell trees in blocks about half a mile square, leaving thick stands of mature trees as natural nurseries to sow their airborne seeds...
One of Yalta's broken promises was that postwar Poland would be a democracy with a popularly elected government. To keep up this hollow fiction, the Polish Communist Party insists that Poles vote for a preselected slate of Communist candidates. Last week, announcing the results of current elections, Radio...
The British put the seven mutineers in jail for safekeeping, let the captain out of the lavatory, and gave him back his ship, the Puszczyk (pronounced, by Poles, pushchick). He promptly sailed for Poland with the remaining six loyal crewmen, muttering philosophically: "To me is equal. Those seven wanted to...
Delicate Subject. After all the Soviet propaganda against "guns for the Huns," the Communists found East German rearmament a delicate subject. Czech Premier Siroky suggested that since "the revival of West German militarism" particularly menaces East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Poland, these three countries should "take emphatic, joint measures for the...
The German victory was remarkable because World War II scattered or destroyed most German horses. But under Dr. Gustav Rau, 74, trainer of every German equestrian Olympic team since 1912, West Germany established a 30,000 member riding association. West German breeders and trainers worked patiently with whatever material they...