Word: polish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...healthy side, Acheson had helped polish the final draft of the North Atlantic pact. It now pledged the U.S. to defend Western Europe with armed force, if necessary-reserving to the U.S. the right to determine when such action was "necessary." Acheson felt that this compromise was forthright enough to reassure Western Europeans, while worded properly to reassure Senators, who didn't want to surrender their Constitutional right to declare war. Norway was all set to climb aboard. Even Denmark's Foreign Minister Gustav Rasmussen, who thought the U.S. was trying to hustle him through the gate, indicated...
Esther L. Witkowska, a Pole, who was deported to work in the Degtyanka copper mines in the Ural Mountains, related: "I was assigned to the Moskva-Komsomol-skaya pits . . . Upon my arrival I found some Polish girls, still in their teens, from a previous transport. . . The girls told me how, when they first came to work in the pits, they cried with fear. The working day [was] eleven hours long. The only meal we had during those eleven hours was black bread and water . . . Punishment for ... tardiness was three months in prison...
Oliver Twist had opened without fanfare in a second-rate theater in the British sector, the Kurbel (meaning: the crank). The theater is in a neighborhood heavily populated by Polish Jewish D.P.s. One night last week, D.P.s rioted in the moviehouse, stopped the show, damaged the theater. Berlin Jewish groups and Ernst Reuter, Berlin's mayor, appealed to the British to ban the movie...
...story of how Henry went after everything and got nothing wears such a high polish that readers may scarcely realize it is essentially an old shoe: the same kind of satiric article Frederic Wakeman tried to fit on the advertising business in The Hucksters. Weidman's is the better fit. His boardroom oratory and office memoranda strike the ear with just the right sound of bursting fruit, and he can nail his types with the deftness of a bartender spearing a cherry with a toothpick. Says one of his newspaper executives, nodding toward his wife and suggesting another round...
Gentle Hands. In his last year Kafka knew a moment of happiness. He met a young Polish Jewish girl at a seaside camp, and teased her as she scaled fish: "Such gentle hands and such bloody work." For a few harried months she lived with him, making him once again want to live and write. He even asked her Orthodox father for permission to marry her, explaining that he was not a religious Jew but "a repentant one, seeking conversion." But it was too late; his lungs were withering...