Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...muscle, China's Communist rulers last week celebrated their fifth anniversary in power. On the rostrum the Chinese Reds were joined by a star-studded delegation from other parts of the Communist empire, headed by Nikita Khrushchev, No. 2 man in Russia. Also present were Boleslaw Bierut, the Polish Communist chief, Kim II Sung, and eight other delegations from sister "people's democracies." "Everybody," cried Radio Peking, "can see the greatness of our country...
...Sofia. Bulgaria, after breezing through the early rounds of an East European tournament, a team of undefeated Polish pugilists took on a squad of crack Soviet boxers in the finals, turned out to be unexpectedly aggressive satellites, and clobbered the Russians, eight bouts...
...carpenter, and hardly ever think of Mohammed at all, need to know, for what Moslems think and do in the years ahead will make a lot of difference to the West. Yet there is a dearth of interpreters. One of the most surprising since Lawrence of Arabia is a Polish Jew named Leopold Weiss, who is now a Pakistani Moslem named Muhammad Asad...
Although he has the face of an inbred Yankee, with a jaw as granitic as any Salstonstall's, Ed Muskie is the son of a Polish immigrant. His father, born Stephen Marciszewski, fled Poland as a 15-year-old refugee from czarist military conscription. He Americanized the family name, learned the tailoring trade, and eventually settled in Rumford. In spite of his sedentary occupation, father Muskie was a confirmed outdoorsman at heart, and Ed became an enthusiastic fisherman, a good skier and a competent trackman in school...
...President's spirits were as good as his health. Ike was whipping through each day's work in about two hours. In his free hours he slipped away to Cherry Hills Country Club for 18 holes of golf a day-a routine that did much to polish his lately ragged game (best score last week: 84). A handful of Eisenhower cronies, who, like Ike. spend considerable time at Georgia's Augusta National Golf Club, showed up in Denver for a visit. Rubbing his group of Augusta friends together with his Denver friends gave Ike some pleasantly sparkling...