Word: polish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...German and Polish with subtitles...
...almost visibly uplifted, by his appearances. Still, the numbers along his motorcade routes were often surprisingly small, thinned perhaps by fears of the crush and heavy security, or the it's-on-TV-anyway mentality; even on his visit to Detroit, only 30,000 turned out in the largely Polish community of Hamtramck. The Pontiff had made special contact for the first time with varied groups of U.S. Catholics -- Hispanics, American Indians, AIDS sufferers -- but his delivery was often wooden (English is not easy for him), and he was best on the few occasions when he could depart from ceremonial...
...again onto U.S. soil to begin his long-awaited eleven-day, 17,000-mile pastoral journey.* Said John Paul on his arrival: "I come as a pilgrim, a pilgrim in the cause of justice and peace and human solidarity, striving to build up the one human family." But the Polish-born Pontiff had also come to listen, and to respond carefully to the divergent voices of the American religious melting pot -- Catholic and non-Catholic alike -- that were raised as he arrived...
DIED. Nathan Perlmutter, 64, national director of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith since 1979; of lung cancer; in New York City. Born of Polish immigrant parents, Perlmutter originally joined the A.D.L. in 1949 to handle civil rights operations in Denver. Last month he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, by Ronald Reagan, who cited "his life work to champion human dignity...
...hull beneath the waterline. Three crewmen were injured. After the fire was put out and the leak plugged, the Neckar limped into its home port of Kiel. To prevent damage to NATO-Warsaw Pact relations, Bonn described the attack as an accident, perhaps caused by the poor aim of Polish gunners. Warsaw began an investigation into the occurrence...