Word: polish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They believe that the Russians at the London Conference will propose that all four powers pull out. Much as the Germans would like that, on its face, they know that if the U.S. withdraws, it withdraws across an ocean; if Russia withdraws, it merely backs up behind the Polish border...
Like anybody else, the New York Times makes mistakes. A fortnight ago, it reported from Warsaw that the Mariavite Sect (a Polish offshoot of the Roman Catholic Church) "does not recognize the authority of the Pope and [its] clergy are not obliged to practice chastity." Last week the chaste Times coughed discreetly and admitted that "chastity" was not the right word: it should have been "celibacy...
...Radar. Sir Edward, 55, Secretary of Britain's Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, is an outstanding authority on radio waves. He is the father of two daughters (Rosalind, 20, dances in the Anglo-Polish Ballet), a detective-story fan, likes golf, his garden and piano, and is a fairly regular churchgoer. Appleton's probings in the upper atmosphere, where he located two layers of ionized gases, resulted in the first use of reflected radio waves to measure the distance of an unseen object. Just in time for World War II, the technique developed into Britain...
...often good Dreiser, which is very good fiction indeed. Marked by the vitality and massive documentation typical of Dreiser, this extension of Cowperwood's activities into the London financial world at times hits with undeniable power. Although Dreiser never completed "The Stoic" he did live long enough to polish it far beyond the raggedness of "The Bulwark." This superiority inheres in the book's construction. Cowperwood--his business and his philanderings--occupies the stage at all times; hence there is none of the diffusion of energy that mars the treatment of Solon Barnes and his splintering family in "The Bulwark...
...were more on his colleagues who, like him, had tried to squeeze through the Iron Curtain. Grim news reached his refuge; he alone had made good his escape. Czech police had nabbed seven of his followers. The Communist-dominated Czech Cabinet meekly handed three of them over to the Polish secret police. Of the four Polish refugees still held by the Czechs, one was Baginski, the last of the famous...