Word: polese
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Resentment against Communists that swept the country after the coup attempt heightened the Moslems' fervor and persuaded the army to turn its head as the holy war spread quickly to western Borneo and Sumatra. In Central Java the army even gave military training to Moslem youths. The murder campaign...
The Warsaw press never mentioned the new U.S. ambassador's time of arrival, and only a bundled-up group of U.S. embassy staffers and Poland's deputy protocol officer waited amid piles of dirty snow on the station platform. But by the time John A. Gronouski, 46, stepped...
Polish-U.S. relations. That could be accomplished easily enough, if the Polish people had anything to say about Poland's policies. As earlier visits by Richard Nixon and Bobby Kennedy showed, the Poles retain an irrepressible affection for the U.S.
Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka's regime is another story. After a few years of relative friendliness in the mid-'50s, Gomulka has become increasingly hostile, now angrily denounces the U.S. for "barbarous bombing raids" on North Viet Nam. He also accused the U.S. of seeking to give West...
In his 500th novel, give or take a dozen or two, Simenon accepts a handicap that only a master could overcome: The Little Saint is a book in which nothing happens. The hero is "a perfectly serene character, in immediate contact with nature and life." All through his boyhood in...