Word: polese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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At the start of World War II, when Soviet Russia was an ally of Nazi Germany, the Russians grabbed the Eastern provinces of Poland. At the end of World War II, when the Russians were sponsoring a Communist-dominated regime in Poland, this land grab, which had greatly embittered the...
Thanks largely to the efforts of two Hawaiian boys who ran from house to house alerting the residents, and to motorists and Coast Guardsmen who rescued them, no one was caught in the stream of lava. It swept over patches of taro root and through upland ranches firing houses, a...
In Poland, he calls Russian influence something less than welcome. He reminds the reader that Poles are 97 percent Catholic, 98 percent anti-Russian, and 99 percent passionately Polish. He also points out that they are altogether unsympathetic with Soviet attempts to woo the Germans, who they recall, killed more...
¶ In Michigan, young (39) Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, determined to succeed himself, was mixing with the common folk and earning a reputation as the best square-dance caller ever to stand alongside a fiddler ("Lady go gee, Gent go haw, Right allemande, just Pa and Ma"). Williams danced...
Cooling the Cans. When the cans first come out of the pile they are fiercely radioactive. Men with long poles flip them into thick-walled lead tunnels to cool off. After eight hours, most of the aluminum's short-lived activity has died away and the cans' milder...