Word: polished
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Kacyvenski’s story is little short of legendary in the Endicott area. He, too, came from an immigrant background—of Polish ancestry—and had lived a difficult life before he was plucked out of U-E by Murphy and brought in to anchor the Crimson defense...
...acquired an opponent tough for them to dismiss. After one pundit declared that Jewish groups were "humiliating Poland internationally by demanding money" for property expropriated during World War II and likened their efforts to a "holocaust industry," the Vatican itself decided this was the last straw. It instructed the Polish Catholic church to prevent its station from mixing prayer and politics. The trouble for Poland is that Radio Maryja's excesses are a disturbing straw in the wind. The country's new government is using the broadcaster as its outlet of choice in a campaign to "purify" Poland, an effort...
Jasienska and her team tested 171 urban and rural Polish women during their menstrual cycle, according to the study. Women with up to a 1 millimeter difference in length between the second and fourth digits of their hands were considered symmetrical, and the rest were dubbed asymmetrical...
...show demonstrated, as Take the Lead does, the blend of precision and passion in an expert dance number. One girl in Take the Lead, watching a couple execute a hot tango, marvels that "It's like sex on hardwood." The contestants on Dancing With the Stars often lacked polish. But look, ma, they're sort-of dancing, in a way she might remember with appreciative nostalgia...
...think of myself as a spirit disguised in a human body,” Glück told the audience. She recounted that, when a translator asked her which gender she would prefer to be used in a Polish version of her poems, she answered: “Whatever makes the best of the pronoun, so that pronoun speaks to a human experience, not to a female experience...