Word: polese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Night after night, Japanese bombs tore bigger & bigger patches out of the maze of ramshackle houses. Sewage piled up in gutters, disease spread and Chungking rats grew fat and impudent. The air-raid warning system was complicated: in addition to sirens, colored lanterns were hung from poles at night (when...
The Flame and the Arrow (Warner) gives ex-Acrobat Burt Lancaster something he really knows how to do. Almost a spoof of the kind of swashbuckling gymnastics that made Douglas Fairbanks famous, the movie is built around a tumbling act. Feebly disguised as a band of gay rogues in 12th...
He had found his homeland in effect a Russian colony. When Soviet Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky was proclaimed the new commander of the Polish army (TIME, Nov. 21), Poles at first could not believe the news, thought it a joke. Later, when Rokossovsky tried to address a crowd of workers in...
Said he: "The idea of some people who think it possible to bring about an early elimination of capitalism ... is wrong and unsuitable to the conditions of our country." Land reform, too, must be carried out more gently. It was wrong, said Mao-echoing some of the fine promises made...
For five years, Communists in East Germany have slyly promised the people that the Oder-Neisse territory would eventually be returned to Germany; Communists in Poland have insisted that the territory would stay with the Poles. Moscow itself kept mum-until last week. To Warsaw journeyed East Germany's...