Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...settlement of the Polish question must be found-not because the principles on which the Western powers entered the war would be violated by a Communist slave state in Poland, but because the question embarrassed Roosevelt in domestic politics. He did not make the case for justice to Poland. He never used in the Polish bargaining the enormous leverage given him by Russia's economic need or by prospective U.S.-British control of West Germany. He simply begged Stalin, as one politician to another, not to embarrass him with the Polish voters...
...emphasized, as a principle of world order, the right of self-determination for such distinct but relatively weak peoples as the Poles. When Stalin's returning armies drove the Germans out of Eastern Poland, he set up at Lublin a "provincial government" of Poland in rivalry to the Polish government, which had fled to London after the Hitler-Stalin invasions. The London Polish government was not a creature of Britain; it derived from the Poland created after World War I by Patriots Paderewski and Pilsudski. The Lublin government, though made up of Poles, was a creature of the Communist...
...sympathetic, revealing eye on Puerto Rico's dirt-poor barrio farmers, their homes and their lush hills, and their first efforts to develop better roads and schools through community cooperation. With notable restraint and suspense, CBS's Danger (Tues. 10 p.m. E.S.T.) re-enacted the story of Polish Skipper Jan Cwiklinski (played by George Voskovec), who escaped from his ship Batory in 1953 despite close Communist surveillance and his long-held conviction that he need not be "a political...
...Paganini members have attained refinement at the price of their own individuality. Their overwhelming sense of ensemble--with its attendant precision--robbed the music of linear independence. This produced a curious lack of internal rhythmic drive, although actual tempos never lagged, as the Mozart took on too much polish it became increasingly dull...
...said a last Mass in his apartment for 20-odd members of his flock. He advised them to turn for spiritual guidance to the Russian priest of the Church of St. Louis, Moscow's only Roman Catholic Church. Said Father Bissonnette: "If you do not speak Russian or Polish and have trouble with the language, just say 'Ya vinovat' (I am guilty), and he will understand and give you absolution...