Word: polish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other play is "Soup," set in a Russian gulag where a group of Polish prisoners try to deal with life under the oppressive Soviet regime; both were written by Stewart Thomsen...
...that it will not tolerate any Soviet military base in Nicaragua, or any overt or covert attempt by Nicaragua to attack its neighbors." Now, what exactly does "will not tolerate" mean? One cannot just say it. Carter declared the Soviet brigade in Cuba intolerable. Reagan declared the crackdown on Polish Solidarity intolerable. And the intolerable endured, despite the brave words. To be serious about containing Sandinista subversion -- overt and covert -- will mean vigilance, resources and risk. It will mean everything from pouring aid into El Salvador, Honduras and Costa Rica to establishing a ring of American bases around the border...
...States have been strained since General Wojciech Jaruzelski's government declared martial law in 1981. Last week President Reagan lifted the last of the economic sanctions he imposed five years ago against the Warsaw regime. The measures and Poland's own economic mismanagement had nearly halved U.S. imports of Polish goods, such as vodka and canned ham. Reagan praised Warsaw's more tolerant attitude toward the Catholic Church and political prisoners, hundreds of whom have been freed since martial law was ended in 1983. Both the church and the banned Solidarity trade-union movement pressed for the U.S. action...
Dreamtime isn't that interesting musically, either. The Stranglers have the synthesized textures and technical polish of Ultravox or the Human League, but they lack those bands' ability to give their songs the pop melodies and hooks that keep listeners from forgetting the songs immediately after hearing them. In other words, most of this music is pleasant and unobtrusive enough to be perfectly in place in a dentist's office...
...Boston College in the consolation game of the Beanpot Tournament. Despite the loss--which came when B.C. forward Ken Hodge flipped in a shot from the midline with zero seconds left in overtime--the Crimson played one of its best games of the season, and showed some of the polish which lead it to a 15-0 record at the beginning of the season...