Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...today's Israel is that there is not yet a recognizable Israeli. It is as false to picture him as a tough colonizer as it is to think of him as an ascetic-looking, hollow-cheeked, dark-skinned Yemenite or ringleted old Jew straight out of a Polish ghetto. The Ingathering of the Exiles crammed the new republic with people from 70 lands, without mutual understanding, unable to speak to each other, refusing often to pray together. Half the population is now composed of Oriental Jews, many of them near-primitive savages from darkest Arabia who had never...
...from killing the romance, this edict merely makes Amrita and Hari hold hands tighter in the corridors of the radio station. What finally loosens the young lovers' grip, and how, takes up the rest of this first novel. It also gives 28-year-old Novelist R. Prawer Jhabvala, Polish wife of a Hindu architect and a resident of India for the past five years, her chance to fashion a deft comedy of manners and values. Allowing for an Indian sea change, her moral is essentially Herman Wouk's-that one's cultural heritage is not a vise...
Second man, Tom Lee, also relies heavily on power but needs more consistency to polish up his game. In the third alot, Pete Lund counts more on the placement-touch game and needs to develop some more speed in his shots. Fourth and fifth players, Kent Allen and Fred Byron, both need to improve their racquet work and develop a faster start...
...star document of the new series, Marshal Stalin brutally served notice upon President Franklin D. Roosevelt, five days before F.D.R.'s death, that cooperation was a myth, that all the Western concessions had been for naught. "Matters on the Polish question have really reached a dead end," wrote Stalin. "Where are the reasons for it? The reasons for it are that the ambassadors of the U.S. and England in Moscow . . . have departed from the principles of the Crimea conference...
...Tomasz Arciszewski, leader of the Polish government-in-exile in London, addressed a telegram to Franklin D. Roosevelt at Yalta. Perhaps the most forlorn of the 43 documents, the telegram shows how the U.S. and Britain might at least have emerged from Yalta with honor...