Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Polish, not Potholes. The Go-Between, a moviemaker's dream, has also been hailed by British critics as one of the best novels to come out of postwar England. Certainly it is one of the most significant, and worth study by anyone who wants to know where English fiction is heading nowadays. No other novel of recent years is a better example of English writing at its contemporary peak of stylized, aristocratic poise-never a flubbed phrase, never a pothole in the smooth course. Author Leslie Poles Hartley, a Harrow-and-Oxford man with six finely finished novels behind...
...Most notorious Communist bail-jumper to date: Gerhart Eisler, top Cominform agent in the U.S. until 1949, when he forfeited his $23,500 bond and got out of New York on the Polish ship Batory. Fugitive Eisler became East Germany's propaganda chief, and then was placed in charge of preventing escapes across the border...
...Blood. In 1948 Necchi had a double stroke of good fortune with two new men. One was Leon Jolson, a Polish-born marketing expert who emigrated to the U.S., saw the possibilities of Necchi's zigzag sewing model, and brought in the first four Necchi machines (TIME, April 21, 1952). Last year his 2,268 franchised dealers in the U.S. sold some 80,000 machines, worth $32 million...
...oracles of industry. As machines and processes become more complex, problems can become too involved for quick solution by old methods and too vital for trial-and-error testing. Designing a new product-an electronic tube, for instance -may call for thousands of lengthy calculations. Often a computer can polish the whole thing off in a couple of minutes...
Twenty-two of the Polish crewmen and the Praca's captain have asked for and been granted political asylum in Formosa...