Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Schenectady, N.Y., a city of 71,000 where G.E. maintains its biggest plant complex, the strike from its outset was a kind of holy war. Many of the Italian-Polish-and German-descent members of International Union of Electrical Workers' Local 301 are second-or third-generation laborers in the heavy-equipment plants. They speak a language of "them" and "us" that has vanished from worker terminology in many other industrial towns...
...more skilled practitioners of the sexual shell game was Witold Gombrowicz, a Polish writer who spent much of his adult life in Argentina, totally unknown to the world. He died at 64 in France last year, after enjoying a muffled underground explosion of fame. Cosmos won the $20,000 International Prize for Literature. It is an achingly attenuated suspense story -except that it turns out that there is no object to the chase, no rich cache of contraband drugs, no key diplomatic documents and no blondes. Just a hanged sparrow, a hanged cat, a mysterious bit of wood suspended...
...effort to repair the damage and help the victims. In Washington, for example, President Nixon used the White House hot line twice last week to talk to Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson about aiding the defeated rebels. The East Bloc countries, however, withheld compassion. The Polish press insisted that Western relief activities were "gross interference in Nigeria's internal affairs...
...spit-and-polish product of Britain's Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, Gowon is sometimes dismissed as "Jack the Boy Scout" in Lagos diplomatic circles. He neither smokes nor drinks, keeps his 5-ft. 10-in. frame trim at 140 Ibs. by playing squash or polo every day, and laces his conversation with such mission-school phrases as "goodness me." He once apologized to newsmen for saying "hell" and added, "I forgot that I am a soldier." When asked how he hoped to be remembered for his conduct of the war, he replied, "I want to feel that...
...Although the evidence, in my opinion points most strongly to Polish intelligence as the culprit, none of those theories (on the origin of the letter) can yet be completely dismissed," Butler said...