Word: polese
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Most experts believe that this is still true, mainly because of the close bonds between the two groups and the Poles' strong feeling of national unity. The army's 210,000 members are drawn largely from the same worker and peasant ranks as members of Solidarity and its...
...Living here was too much what they/thought it would be. The sequences of perfect days were unavoidably what they'd come for. They should be making/more of what was there and possible at any hour in that clean air. With all those possibilities aligned for them along the tracks and...
Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev greeted Jaruzelski's appointment with a cordial telegram urging him to use his "great prestige" to rally the Polish party against "counterrevolution." There was no indication that the Kremlin had imposed Jaruzelski on the Poles; indeed, it probably would have preferred Politburo Hard-Liner Stefan...
The workers were well aware, said Walesa, that any attempt to wrest political control from the Communists or withdraw from the Warsaw Pact could bring on a Soviet invasion, "so we're not about to violate those principles." But even if the Soviets did invade, he added, they could...
The country runs and runs, from fear of death and pollution and old age as well as from longing for health, beauty and wellbeing. But what Americans will do with their revitalized corpora remains to be seen. Author Studs Terkel (Working) views the goings-on like a blue-collar Jeremiah...