Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...charge was made at a time when anything the Nazis said was deeply and properly distrusted. The Russians promptly countercharged that the Nazis had done it. The Russian story: when the Red armies retreated from Smolensk, they had to leave behind the captive Polish officers. The Nazis had shot the Poles, rigged the Katyn story as a propaganda plant...
During the postwar period of Soviet-Western cordiality, the Russian version became accepted as true. The Katyn Forest tragedy was all but forgotten-except by the Poles. But a number of U.S. Congressmen, urged on by their Polish-American constituents and a committee headed by former...
...Russians were indeed responsible for the Katyn massacre as such preliminary findings indicated it would be clear evidence that the Kremlin had planned the extirpation of Polish army leadership far in advance (some 11,000 other Polish officers had simply disappeared without trace in Russia). The Kremlin's rule in Poland today is maintained through the Communist party and through Red Army Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, who is Poland's Defense Minister. Russian control is greatly facilitated by the fact that the major part of Poland's officer corps is either dead or in exile...
This, he implied, was only a beginning. He discovered that she had simply assumed the name DuPont for flash effect during a career as a cosmetician and manufacturer of lady's chin straps, and that she was actually the daughter of a Polish laborer. As a perpetrator of "marital fraud," Doraine deserved neither a separation nor alimony, her husband argued...
...sharpest blades in 1920 Paris was a young Polish-born painter named Moise Kisling. He wore his hair in a fringe, would duel at the drop of a beret, threw strenuous parties in his shabby studios. "He's the swellest guy in the world," wrote Kiki, queen of the Montparnasse models, in her diary. Kisling returned the compliment by faithfully reproducing her generous curves in his solidly painted canvases. Last week Artist Kisling, now an energetic 60, was having his first Paris show in 15 years. To replace Kiki and his other Montparnasse models, he had called...