Word: polish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...July 1944, Mikolajczyk and Professor Stanislaw Grabski, an elderly Polish democrat, flew from London to Moscow. Stalin wanted the Polish government in London to merge with his own Lublin Committee, consisting of Polish Communists and stooge socialists. As bait, he offered to ease the Teheran partitioning (the Curzon Line). Mention of the Curzon Line and of the Lublin Poles set Grabski off. He "began to beat on Stalin's table. He spoke for 45 minutes in Russian about the criminal injustices that were being heaped on Poland. When Grabski finished, winded, Stalin got up and patted the indignant...
...August 1945, the now-merged coalition government at Warsaw was summoned by a phone call to Moscow. Stalin wanted even more Polish territory than the Curzon Line gave him. Molotov saw the Poles first. He tried to soothe them by saying they could send their shipping from the landlocked Polish port of Elbing through a channel that ran near Konigsberg into the Bay of Danzig. Then the party went to Stalin's office for his approval...
...time the curtain slid down last week on Aïda, 6 ft. Harlem Baritone Lawrence Winters, 32, had his first big-time opera audience, if not all the critics, cheering, too. His voice was fine, strong and ringing on top; and what he lacked in power, polish and poise should come with time...
Anna, a big handsome Polish girl who had a habit of getting her own way, thought he was wonderful. Adolf soon proposed. They were married and lived happily in Brooklyn for eleven years. Then Adolf evolved a wonderful plan. He would go back to Poland, sell his family's farm, bring his aged parents to the U.S. and buy a farm himself. Anna agreed...
...Couple of Acres. Adolf had been battered by the war. He was broke; the records of his immigration case had vanished. Anna sent him clothes and money, and got a Manhattan lawyer, Polish-born Charles Czalczynski Carroll, to handle his case. When Carroll finally badgered the Polish foreign office into giving Adolf a passport, Anna sent him a $463 airline ticket to New York...