Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...solidarity," the Chinese talked of the "independence" of non-Soviet Communist parties. The East German Communists, present almost to a man, were saying that their independence, in this case meaning their very existence, depended upon immediate economic aid from Russia, now that they were no longer able to steal Polish coal...
...large part of the striking power of the Navy. Others may pull the strings and add to or lessen my frustrations, strengthen or weaken, sharpen or blunt the weapon before it is handed to me; but it is I who have it. It is mine to shape and polish, inspire or confound, instruct or confuse, ready or sheathe, and employ wisely or foolishly...
...Before a group that grew in size every minute, a young actor, holding a volume of Petofi's poems, recited a poem famous in the 1848 revolution. Many onlookers wept, and by unspoken consent it was decided to go to the statue of General Bem, the Polish general who led the Hungarians and was crushed by the Russians the following year. Without orders from anyone, the crowd formed in ranks six abreast, crossed the Chain Bridge to the west bank of the Danube...
...Central Committee took the unprecedented step of sending the Sixth Five Year Plan back to the planners with demands for revision of unrealistic targets, "a decrease in the volume of capital investment, and curtailment of the number of construction projects." Carefully unmentioned was the fact that the Polish and Hungarian revolts had created unexpected new drains on Russia's resources, especially coal...
COUNT ROLLER SKATES, by Thomas Sancton (383 pp.; Doubleday, $3.95), whizzes its screwball hero right through the mentally sound barrier. "Count Casimir Poliatoffsky" poses as a Polish nobleman and simultaneously claims to be descended from the Maya gods and the lost tribes of Israel, but he is actually half-Mexican. He once flopped as the star of a roller-skating show in Italy. Now he is a skilled grease monkey in a ship's engine room, and this uneven, offbeat first novel begins when one of the count's shipmates takes him home for dinner on a shore...