Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prolonged, early-morning blast of locomotive whistles in the Polish industrial city of Poznan that set off a revolt heard round the world. At 7 a.m. one day last week some 30,000 machinists, founders, fitters and laborers of all callings assembled at the locomotive, railroad-car and metallurgical factories on Poznan's outskirts. They were orderly but they were determined, and they had a grievance...
Back home in Cumberland, Maine's cigar-chomping ex-Republican Governor Horace Hildreth, now U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, amiably tried to bulldoze a baby elephant, flown to the U.S. as a gift from some of Hildreth's Pakistani admirers. If Amateur Mahout Hildreth can polish up by August, his pet may accompany him then to the G.O.P. National Convention in San Francisco as an alternate to an alternate delegate...
...Kunsan, Inchon and Pusan-were told to pack up their belongings. Without incident, two transport planes and 18 helicopters flew them to the demilitarized zone at Panmunjom. The U.N. will continue to report South Korean military imports to the commission, but jubilant South Koreans, who regard the Czech and Polish inspectors as spies, were happy to be rid of them...
Jackie Gleason: "Not, at heart, I think, a truly creative comedian. He is rather an exceptionally talented extrovert, an actor who, in a comedy sketch, can deliver funny lines with polish and vigor...
...Communist policy of playing footie with former enemies is not getting by without a protest from the grudge boys in the lower party echelons. Last week the Polish provincial Communist newspaper Glos Koszalinski wanted to know who was going to be held responsible for killing Communists now that members of the wartime Polish Free (underground) Army are being pardoned by Warsaw. In making its point, Glos Koszalinski let slip a figure never previously acknowledged by the Communists: since World War II, some 30,000 armed Communist guards have been killed by the Polish Resistance...