Word: polished
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...become an authentic hero. Wherever he walked across the idle yard, workers would break into spontaneous applause. A few would run up for his autograph. Each evening when he climbed the flower-covered main gate to deliver news of the strike, the crowd would cheer and break into the Polish song Sto Lat (May He Live a Hundred Years). Manila March 10, 1986 The men wore loose-fitting barong tagalogs; many of the women, designer dresses. The formality was appropriate for a presidential inauguration - even one called at short notice. Clad in a simple yellow dress, Corazon (Cory) Aquino...
...told her about all this, thought I was joking. My father asked me to ring back during halftime. And none of us even want to think about how my more persnickety aunts--the ones convinced they're descendants of Spanish nobility--will react when they read about our Afro-Polish roots...
...earlier this week, Henrietta’s had sold 505 Strawberry Teas and Noir had sold 174 “Femme Fatales.” Boloco had raised $547 through the sale of smoothies, and The Carriage House salon had sold about thirty bottles of pink nail polish...
Poland's combative Kaczynski twins are not shy about picking a fight. The President, Lech, and his brother, Jaroslaw, the Prime Minister, have squared off with the country's central bankers, as well as its foreign-policy élite. But a new bill passed by the Polish Sejm in late July may [an error occurred while processing this directive]be their most contentious move yet. The law fulfills the former dissidents' campaign promise to root out anyone associated with the old communist regime, but goes much further than most Poles expected. Previously, only someone who wanted to serve in public...
...Croats and others. As the empires were carved up at the end of two world wars, new nations took shape. The state of Israel, to be sure, was created on someone else's land (whose is a matter of debate), but it was hardly alone in that. Today's Polish towns of Wroclaw and Bydgoszcz, for example, went by their German names of Breslau and Bromberg not long ago. Israel's case differs from that of other new nations mainly because many have never reconciled themselves to its existence...