Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dazzled by such repartee, Aniela, the Polish hired girl, soon said...
Invitation to Moscow, by Z. Stypulkowski. Gripping personal history by a leader of the Polish underground who refused to "confess" despite 70 days &nights of Soviet-style interrogation (TIME, June...
...first order that came to Zbigniew Stypulkowski, Polish underground leader in his cell in Moscow's Lubianka prison, made him laugh. A handsome, strapping girl of about 20 entered the cell, yapped one word: "Undress." She had to repeat it twice before he took her seriously, stripped self-consciously to the buff. Poking about clinically, she asked, "Have you syphilis?" and then stalked...
Satan-Smooth at 3 a.m. The invitation to Moscow began as a luncheon date for March 28, 1945. Stypulkowski and 15 other members of the Polish underground government were invited to be Marshal Zhukov's guests, ostensibly to discuss future Polish-Russian relations and the security of the Red army then fighting in Poland. Actually, the Russians had laid plans to smear the Polish underground, stifle its "uncooperative" patriots, and set up their own puppet regime. Promptly on arrival, the 16 delegates were clapped into Lubianka to be "interrogated." The charge: that they had conspired with the Germans against...
Four days before the bouts, Moscow suddenly wired that its boxers "could not appear, in view of unforeseen circumstances." Then the Red embassy in Rome announced that it knew of no change in plans. Next, on the day before the championships, the Polish team informed officials that the Russians were on the way at last by air from Minsk. But when weighing-in time came, there were no Russians in sight. They were scratched from the lists, and the bouts went on without them (and without the satellite Rumanians, who claimed last-minute visa trouble...