Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Work has already started. A group of Polish archaeologists, using special electronic equipment, has charted 120 acres of ruins in three months, a job that would have taken six years using traditional methods. To encourage other foreign archaeologists to excavate Carthage, the Tunisian government has promised them that they can keep or borrow a portion of their Punic and Roman finds. "With scientific digging," declares UNESCO's Fradier, "Carthage can be completely restored in 15 to 20 years. So far as tourists are concerned, in two or three years we'll have put Carthage back...
Millions of Poles were killed by the Nazis during World War II, and every night, candles burn in memorial along the streets of Warsaw. But the most shocking atrocity of all-the murder of at least 4,500 Polish army officers in the Katyn Forest near the Russian city of Smolensk in 1940-is the one that Poles are forbidden to commemorate. Reason: the Soviets have long been suspected of doing the shooting...
...Russians, who in 1940 were allied to the Germans, carried out the Katyn massacre. Based on what he called "a considerable body of circumstantial evidence," Owen O'Malley (now Sir Owen) wrote Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden in 1943: "Most of us are convinced that a large number of Polish officers were indeed murdered by the Russian authorities...
...medium height, with only a few gray hairs to betray his age (51 last week), he walks so quickly that he is halfway down the street before those with him are out the door. There is no wasted motion, no nervousness, no visible temperament. For a Polish immigrant's son like Joe, proud of his plain taste and blunt speech, an artistic temperament is soft, alien to his ideals...
...past two years." On former Teammate Chip Oliver, who quit the pro game to join a hippie commune: "He claims he once kicked a 75-yard field goal while high on mescaline. Hell, I punted a ball 86 yards against Tennessee-at the time I was high on Polish sausage...