Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...festering misery and hatred of the Polish people for what they have suffered under Communism broke dramatically into the light of day last week. Twelve young men, brought to trial for their part in the revolt of factory workers at Poznan (TIME, July 9, et seq.)poured forth a torrent of testimony against the secret police and the Communist system. From court, and prosecution as well, came verification that some of the testimony-of police brutality, of enforced hunger, of officially induced lying-was indeed true. Paradoxically, the evidence was made possible by the Polish Communist Party itself. With...
...court was three judges, and proceedings were open to three Western legal observers and twelve Western correspondents. Witness after witness described the travail of interrogation by the secret police. The most telling indictment of all came from Janusz Suwart, 22-year-old son of a former Polish Communist. He is a thin, passionate youth with deep-set eyes and pale face. Here is how he answered when the prosecutor asked derisively: Isn't it true that you have already served two years in prison for theft...
...with hillbillies or, on one occasion, Washington blue bloods, Michael Kidd continually constructs exuberant displays. With wit, ballet, acrobatics, and pantomime as tools, he creates a life on stage that is a pleasure to watch. At his worst, his hand is merely too obvious, owing to the sometimes overprofessional polish of his characters' motion; at his best, as in the very amusing Sadie Hawkins Day chase, his work is a tour de force...
...next Tsar. But Boris' hesitation and uncertainty soon gave rise to the rumor that he had killed Ivan's younger brother, Dmitri, to insure his own succession. After seven years a pretender appeared, calling himself Dmitri. Aided by the continued unrest of the boyars and peasants and by a Polish army, this false Dmitri managed to defeat Boris Godunov and seize the throne before he too was killed and succeeded by another false Dmitri who was, likewise, soon assassinated...
...have been since the Depression; there are innumerbable small businesses that are struggling desperately to stay above water, caught between high taxes and high costs. Thus, while small business strains and the farmer sweats and the unemployed look elsewhere, the GOP shouts of a new era of gliter and polish...