Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard coach Bob Harrison said that even though the Crimson has won three straight games, it must polish its offensive game, and cut down on "silly fouls" and turnovers...
Alone among the armed services in an era of increasing permissiveness, the Marine Corps clings to its traditional hard-nosed tradition of unremitting spit-and-polish discipline. In exercising the Executive's quadrennial responsibility of selecting a new corps Commandant...
...Middle Ages, when it was dangerous to question Christian dogma, which held that the earth was the center of the universe and that other worlds were lifeless, the Polish astronomer Copernicus and his followers thought otherwise. Although he prudently did not publish his epic work On the Revolution of Heavenly Bodies until he lay on his deathbed, Copernicus dealt the earth-centered universe of Ptolemy its final blow. After years of observations, he concluded it was the sun?and not the earth?that occupied center stage; the earth, he said, was simply one of several planets that spun around...
...film was made in Mexico by Alexandro Jodorowsky, a Charles-Mansonish-looking, sincere, 40-year-old Chilean of Polish-Russian parentage who was once a member and composer for Marcel Marceau's mime-troupe. Between TV, talk shows he now runs a Mexico City theatre and writes a comic strip "Fabulas Panicas" ("Panic Fables") for a newspaper in Mexico City. Jodorowsky wrote, directed, and is the hero of the film...
...attacks with considerable enthusiasm the ambivalence among the Catholic radicals concerning black nationalism and white ethnic power. While sympathetic to the demands by blacks for more control over their lives and more respect for black culture, the radical Catholic has systematically sought to destroy the traditions and culture of Polish, Italian, Lithuanian, Slovak, Irish and French Canadian Catholics. Somehow, these traditions and customs are basically "unprogressive." In place of the parish, the Catholic radical has sought small group liturgies which lend themselves more to suburban homes and college campuses than to the Italian ghetto in East Harlem...