Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...walking through a series of compromises between the secular and sacred. The rabbinate has even made a few tactical concessions (most recent: rescinding the rule that before marriage all brides must produce a "certificate of purity" given after a visit to the ritual bath). But for the most part, Polish-born Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Halevi Herzog and his fellow rabbis have dug in their heels and refused to budge, confident in the prophecy of the great 12th century philosopher, Maimonides, that "in the end Israel will return...
British seadogs are bitter. "You never hear of the Nationalists attacking Communist [e.g., Polish] ships trading with the mainland," beefed a Hong Kong trader. Snapped a Royal Naval officer: "If it were politically possible to shoot to kill, this trouble would all be over in an hour...
Every German party is wooing them, but one excels all the rest. The All-German Bloc (BHE) began as the League of Expellees and Victims of Injustice. Today it is the private political vehicle of a Polish-born, ex-SS captain named Waldemar Kraft. In the refugee-laden farm steads near the Danish border, Kraft's name is magic. In 1950 he ran up 23% of the vote in local elections in Schleswig-Holstein. BHE might win 40 to 50 seats in the Bundestag...
Dark, Italian-born Dick Ehrman speaks five languages (Italian, French, German, English, Polish). Before he joined A. P. as a stringer in Florence, he worked as an interpreter for the U.S. Army and a disk jockey for the Army's radio station in Leghorn. His colleagues say he has a "weird quality of seeming to be the same nationality as the person he is covering." This weird quality paid off last month, when Japanese Crown Prince Akihito visited Rome; Ehrman was mistaken for a member of the prince's party, admitted to the official reception...
...Caves of Adventure, which describes two trips to the bottom of the Pierre Saint-Martin pothole in the Pyrenees, Polish-born Haroun Tazieff gives a speleologist's answer. After dropping into the limestone mountain about as far down as the Empire State Building is up (1,250 ft.), Tazieff had "an astonishing feeling" of accomplishment. The experience made him skeptical of such highfalutin motives for spelunking as the advancement of scientific knowledge and the development of a nation's natural resources by discovering underground rivers for hydroelectric power. Holes and caves, Tazieff concluded, seduce speleologists with that most...