Word: polish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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America is blessed by these immigrants. We can learn so much from them. My second-grade class this year has children from Jordan, Egypt, Mexico, Peru, Cuba, the Philippines, Korea, Thailand and Lebanon; I also have Irish and Polish and English Americans, a first-generation Italian and a child from Sri Lanka. We all speak English. I tell them, "Keep your language and your customs, but learn American ways. You are the peacemakers of tomorrow and will build the bridge to better world understanding...
...colonists had brought up their children to speak only their native tongues, we would be a fractured country speaking French, Irish, Dutch, Polish-and this letter would be in German...
...Madonna's status as an emblem of Polish nationalism dates from Sweden's invasion of the country in 1655. For 40 days, as the Swedes surrounded the monastery, the monks prayed to the Virgin for deliverance. The siege failed, and the Poles subsequently drove the Swedes out of the country. In gratitude, the reigning Polish monarch, Jan Kazimierz, dedicated his throne and the country to "the Virgin Mary, Queen of Poland." In 1711 the people of Warsaw walked to Czestochowa to thank the Virgin for saving the city from the bubonic plague. Ever since, the pilgrimage has been...
...Franciscan convent at St. Martin's Church in Warsaw's Old Town has become an important symbol of the controversy between the Roman Catholic church and the Polish government. It serves as headquarters for the Primate's Committee for Relief to the Families of Those Deprived of Liberty, an organization that provides food, medical assistance and legal advice to those who have been imprisoned or detained by Poland's military government and to their families. In the regime's eyes, the St. Martin's relief committee, which is currently made up of about...
Although the Polish government generally, if grudgingly, tolerates the committee, members are under no illusions about their status. They insist, however, on the church's right to undertake charitable activities, even under martial law. Says a volunteer: "It is a legal way of defying the authorities, and we want to show that we can deal in a Christian way with the people running this country...