Word: polese
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Newsweek brings this "lessons of the past" pap to its logical conclusion: "each country's national character is almost a mirror of the other's." National character, you know, the thing that makes everybody in a country alike. Remember, this is why Germans are so nasty, Poles so hapless, and...
Voters said Gorbachev had failed to raise their living standard and suggested the industrial and agricultural powerhouse--dominated for centuries by Poles, Nazis, Russian czars and Soviets--would be more prosperous on its own.
The power authority's executive director, Jose del Valle, said two transmission towers and two poles supporting feeder lines were damaged and that inspectors determined the equipment had been vandalized.
Many Poles, weary of Tyminski's crude emotionalism and obsessive anti- Semitic rantings, heaved a sigh of relief. His special enemy is ex- Solidarity activist Adam Michnik, editor in chief of Warsaw's Gazeta Wyborcza, whose paper noted two months ago how quickly Tyminski had supported the Soviet coup. The...
The vandalism required the collective efforts of several people for at least an hour. More than 50 bolts adjoining the metal poles that formed the structure were removed. The joints that held the poles together were then flipped so as to make the structure even more unstable. The poles were...