Word: polese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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George Geiger's death in the tiny (1,000 sq. mi.) coal-rich Saar basin, the No. 1 trouble spot in Western Europe, set the Rhine River foaming with ancient controversy. On the German shore. Vice Chancellor Franz Blücher flatly accused the Saar's French bosses...
One reason for the tremendous increase has been the great influx of politicians in the Cambridge area during the last few months. "First we warned them," McCarthy said, "since many of the poles were from out-of-town.
The name stuck. So did Mieczyslaw's determination to find his real father. Before the war they had all lived together on a farm in eastern Poland. Then the Russians marched in, split Poland with the Nazis, captured Mieczyslaw's father, and moved mother & child, along with tens...
¶Highbrow gobbledygook of the week (from Hemingway: The Writer as Artist, by Professor Carlos Baker of Princeton University): "Despite the insistent, denotative matter-of-factness at the surface of the presentation, the subsurface activity of A Farewell to Arms is organized connotatively around two poles. By a process of...
On the day, prisoners raised illegal flags. The inmates of Compound 7, who had been building stone barracks, stoned a contingent of U.S. guards sent to bring down the flags. While guards tried to force their way in to restore order, the barrage of stones increased. A U.S. officer, whose...