Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though he rejects all labels, Krol sees himself as a middleman, true to Vat ican Council II in restraining "people who are trying to run away with so-called renewal." The son of Polish immigrants in Cleveland, he was a food-store manager, first became interested in the priesthood when he was troubled by his inability to defend the church against the barbs of a Protestant friend. Krol has spent most of his career in canon law classrooms and chancery offices. In a rapid climb of the priestly pyramid, he was ordained at the age of 26, became auxiliary bishop...
...brilliant administrator and a man who speaks eleven languages, Krol (Polish for "king") is closely attuned to the attitudes of Pope Paul VI. He is fairly progressive on social principles but traditional on doctrine and church government. He has issued strong attacks on the arms race and unequal distribution of world wealth, but emphatically approved the endorsement of priestly celibacy at the recent world synod of bishops in Rome...
...great proposition. Amazingly, the recruiters found people willing to pay. The money began to flow in, and Turner was on his way. He contracted with Kolmar Laboratories in Port Jervis, N.Y., to turn out the Koscot product line, which now consists of 104 items ranging from nail-polish remover ($1.25 a bottle) to mink-oil concentrate, used as a skin softener, which is priced at $10 for a two-ounce bottle...
...Connor's world, shrewdness does not count, nor do other traditional virtues such as thrift or planning ahead. The Displaced Person is a complex and appalling tragedy in which country people who think of themselves as hardy "survivors," destroy their own world rather than absorb a Polish refugee who is himself simply trying to survive. Few writers mix comedy and cruelty more offhandedly or more effectively. Witness a redneck farmhand's wife contemplating the Polish family's broken English: "They can't talk. You reckon they'll know what colors even is?" As her hostile...
Forty per cent of Cleveland's voters are black. Most politics-watchers had expected the two white candidates to divide the majority vote, allowing Pinkney and Stokes black machine to win. It didn't happen because Cleveland's whites, a collection of Bohemians, Lithuanians, Slovaks, Croats, Polish and Irish, united around conservative Perk. They did this despite their traditional attraction to the Democratic party. Once again, race beat party...