Word: polese
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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As soon as ordinary people from Dresden and Potsdam, wearing tennis shoes and loaded with plastic bags and perambulators, were seen hobbling through the underbrush across the Hungarian border in the fall of 1989, crowding embassies in Warsaw and trains in Prague, there were raised eyebrows and mixed feelings in...
When he saw the night of revelry round the Brandenburg Gate and the flag- waving crowds in Dresden, he decided that the time was ripe for him to make History. Blinded by the vision of enthusiastic voters carrying him on their shoulders, he decided to forge ahead -- never mind the...
At times, though, the demonstrations generated more annoyance than sympathy. On Wednesday a large group of protesters outside the convention hall confronted a line of police officers in full riot gear. In the resulting scuffle, 80 demonstrators were handcuffed, loaded into buses and taken to headquarters to be booked on...
Socially, John Sutter and Frank Bellarosa are poles apart. One is a well- born, wealthy lawyer; the other is the head of a New York crime family. But geographically the two men are close neighbors in a posh section of Long Island, N.Y., called The Gold Coast (Warner; 500 pages...
A. The main problem with the Poles, in their assessment of what I proposed, is that they misunderstood my argument. I never left any doubt that on the road to unification, Poland's western border must be guaranteed. There are different opinions on how to do this, but I am...