Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Caracas to La Paz last week, red carpets were unrolled, honor guards got busy with spit and polish, ceremonial banquet tables were laid. Reason: a merry-go-round of formal state visits by Latin American chiefs of government. The President of Venezuela visited Lima in June,, and next week the President of Peru will return the courtesy. The President of Bolivia went to Santiago in February, is expected to visit Bogota in September. The President of Chile will visit Bolivia this month. President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla of Colombia landed in Ecuador last week for chats with his neighbor, President...
...Manhattan Real Estate Man Irving Maidman, Tiffany & Co. resembled a piece of valuable antique silver, badly in need of polishing. Sure that big profits awaited the polisher, Maidman began buying Tiffany stock early last year. By early 1955, claiming control of almost 10% of the company's 132,451 shares of stock, he asked Tiffany President Louis de B. Moore for a voice in management, demanded that the store catch up with "modern merchandising" (one of his suggestions: sell Tiffany's silver polish in chain stores...
...half a dozen simple sentences, unrehearsed and devoid of speechwriters' polish, the President of the U.S. raised the conference from the legalese in which it was beginning to flounder, and seized the world's imagination with a rough-hewn plan to free mankind of the fear of surprise attack...
...third column proceeded down Catinat Street to the Majestic Hotel, Saigon's best, where members of the International Armistice Commission (Indian, Canadian and Polish) make their headquarters. Led by a gang of khaki-clad youngsters, refugees from North Viet Nam, armed with Tonkinese machetes, the crowd broke the closed gates of the bar and poured into the lobby like a tidal wave. Madame Geneviève Tardy, busy at the switchboard, fell bleeding under the blow of a chair...
...season, in the bush-league ball parks of Latin America, Campy and Newk continued to polish up their partnership. When Newk was called up to the Dodgers in 1949, Campy was already there, ready to help him win 17 (he lost only eight) to become Rookie of the Year. Since then, Newcombe has racked up records of 19-11, 20-9, 9-8 with two years out ('52 and '53) for Army service...