Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Abrams had been on a tour of Europe when he received a chance to go to Moscow through the Polish delegation as a non-Communist participant in the Festival. He said he was prompted to make the trip by a desire to see the country and the possibility that he could get the Western message across to some Russians. Once in the Soviet capital, he tended to pass up the Festival itself and concentrated on making more immediate contacts with the Russian people...
Into Pittsburgh one day last week rolled a cream-colored station wagon loaded with Polish highway officials and powered by high-octane U.S. diplomacy. Shepherded by a U.S. Bureau of Public Roads official, the four visiting Poles peppered Pennsylvania experts with questions on road-building materials and mechanization, marveled at superhighways, ogled multi-colored U.S. cars. Though few Pennsylvanians stopped to ogle back, the Poles were nevertheless important. Like another Polish delegation busy last week observing U.S. corn-raising techniques in Iowa, they were flesh-and-blood manifestations of a new warmth in U.S.-Polish relations...
Watching the flow of aid, trade and ideas, a State Department observer last week summed up the U.S. attitude towards its Polish experiment: "It is a calculated risk. But what we could gain is great, what we could lose is relatively insignificant...
...hair, the business of hair-dyeing was a secretive thing reserved largely for showfolk. Women retired to back rooms to brew their metallic dyes; slinking out came eye-fluttering hussies. But nowadays, as one TV personality reports, "it's the same as changing the color of your nail polish. It doesn't have any more stigma than that...
...Polish National Catholic...