Word: polese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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*Catherine the Great's general, who won crushing victories over the Turks and the Poles, and in 1799, in the reign of Czar Paul, drove the French armies out of Italy for a while.
It doesn't make any difference whether or not they know how; it doesn't make any difference whether or not they have any skis; or boots; or poles-those who do invariably wind up in Stillman any-way-but what does matter is whether or not they have a...
From the nave, González built steps to the altar, a massive table of bricks. High in the apse, stark against the black salt, he set a 20-ft. cross made of thick, wooden poles. Last week, in preparation for the Christmas service, the miners were putting a finishing...
Giovanni (The Life of Christ) Papini tries to right this excess in his Michelangelo, but sometimes falls into the opposite error-he writes a little patronizingly of the man, almost as if he had paid rent on him. Yet the book gives a vital new contact with one of the...
Poland. "We have so many coal mines, yet coal is rationed," wrote a Polish housewife last month to Radio Warsaw. "Where is it all going?" Warsaw's answer: "For the great constructions of Socialism"-i.e., Red army steel and munitions plants. The Poles had other troubles. Cracow's...