Word: polisher
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Koch is typical of many New Yorkers reared in the urban equivalent of the log cabin. His parents were Polish Jewish immigrants who lived in The Bronx when the two boys and their kid sister Pat were small. After the father's modest fur business failed during the Depression, the family operated a cloakroom concession in a Newark catering hall...
...longer represented by the Lion and Unicorn. Its new emblem is an owl. His name is George Smiley and he is by all standards a most incongruous symbol. The man is a perpetual cuckold. He is portly, rumpled, bespectacled, with a tendency to puff when ascending stairs and to polish his glasses with his tie. He is donnish and vague. He is also the premier spy of his time...
Just as Harvard failed to score in close after sacking UMass's punter last week, the Crimson could not come up with the one play it needed to polish off this drive. St. John was stopped for a loss trying the right side, then sacked for a 14-yard loss when he dropped back to pass. As the clock ticked off the final seconds, St. John passed to Curry on the sideline, but the speedster was brought down immediately. Harvard had come up empty again...
Rafto is an experienced runner whose time has come. Plagued by serious knee problems last year, Rafto has had a few rough spots to polish in summer camp, but is nor running well. Eichner will return from a strong freshman season. A hot ticket when he's got his stuff together, he should improve as the season progresses...
...born Leopold Antony Stokowski in the Marylebone section of London in 1882, the son of a Polish cabinetmaker and a mother of Irish descent. They managed to scrape up enough money to send him to Oxford and to the Royal College of Music. He got a job as an organist in a London church, then moved to St. Bartholomew's in New York. In 1909 he became the conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony. He was young (27) and virtually untried, but magisterially handsome and already with the mark of genius upon him. Under the gaze of his stern blue...