Word: polese
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In the summer of 1984, when the sanctions against Poland seemed to be hurting ordinary Poles and not the communists, Laghi traveled to Santa Barbara to meet with Reagan at the Western White House and urge that some of the sanctions be lifted. The Administration complied. At the same time...
The Winter Games are more informal and convivial than the Summer ones. At Les Saisies, a picturesque winterscape of red bridges in the snow, where the first women's biathlon in Olympic history was being held, snowballing was actually the favorite event, and children bobsledded without benefit of sleds. Scores...
Relegated to the sidelines, the Poles and Norwegians pondered what might have been. But even some losers found joy in the act of participation. Italian defenseman Bob Manno, 36, a former N.H.L. All-Star winding down his career in dignified exile a long way from his native Niagara Falls, demonstrated...
Vladek tells how he adjusted to camp life and helped learn to survive by teaching English to a Polish kapo, or head prisoner--Poles are pigs, Germans cats, Americans dogs and French frogs in the cartoon world of Maus. The reader also learns of Vladek's attempts to help his...
Holocaust "revisionism" is not simply idiocy on an epic scale; it's not like saying that the French Revolution never happened or that the earth is flat. It is a blatant attempt to stir up anti-semitism. These monstrous lies are an insult to the memory of all those who...