Word: polish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York, a manufacturer proudly advertised the ultimate in labor-saving devices for U.S. women: "Flexible rubber separators to keep your toes apart so polish dries thoroughly without smearing...
Croat and Serb peasant leaders in exile endorsed the declaration. Czech, Austrian, Rumanian and Polish agrarian groups might soon follow. The U.S. cautiously refrained from publicly supporting the proposed union. Washington, however, was well aware that the union might become a useful link with peasant movements which form the main opposition to Communist domination of Eastern Europe...
Fear of the Graves. "As for the Polish intellectuals, they are very stubborn, too. There are even leftist Cabinet ministers here who hate Russia. We must somehow make all Poles understand the need for friendship with Russia-even if it is more with the brain than from the heart...
...course in the war nearly all Poland's Jews were slaughtered. A new Polish bourgeoisie took over their little shops and businesses. Now, when an occasional Jew does come back from concentration camp or other exile and reclaims his place, his successor hates him. And every other member of the new Polish bourgeoisie fears that his predecessor might return from the grave...
...effect in Poland. Once Poles knew it was that easy to kill Jews, the tendency and temptation was there. I will never forget the day that the Nazis killed 17,000 Jews at Maidanek while I was in another part of that concentration camp. That evening many of my Polish fellow prisoners got drunk to celebrate. That's terrible. But it's true...