Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jimmy Carter was trying to woo the Polish vote, he wore the wrong shirt. The eagle without a crown on his shirt is the Polish Communist version. The traditional Polish emblem is a white eagle with a crown symbolizing sovereignty and independence-virtues denied under Communism...
...report was written six months ago by Israel Koenig, 45, a Polish-born member of Israel's highly conservative National Religious Party and, since 1967, the Interior Ministry's top officer for Galilee. Koenig's report, never intended for publication, was meant to spotlight what many Jews consider the country's most serious domestic problem at present: the growing numerical strength and rising nationalism of Israel's Arab citizens. They now number 430,000, or one-seventh of Israel's total population, and their birth rate is four times as high as that...
...Polish-born Kosinski, a National Book Award winner in 1969 for his novel "Steps," said he was honoring the Forum audience with his third public appearance since burrowing into his apartment four months ago to work on his eighth novel, leaving only to "eat lunch in a restaurant and for Operation Sail...
With the first team tentatively set, the coaches have begun to shift emphasis for the league season. Instead of concentrating on installing plays and testing personnel, the top priority will be to polish and sharpen execution. The atmosphere of camp, best described as emotionally brisk rather than spirited, must give way to the series of weekly buildups necessary to repeat as Ivy Champs...
Reliance on Western credit reflects some profound changes in Eastern Europe. Since 1970, when riots by Polish workers protesting higher food prices brought down Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka, Soviet-bloc countries have made a determined effort to improve the material standard of living of their people. Encouraged by diplomatic détente, they have developed a voracious appetite for Western products, buying everything from consumer goods to entire factories. One result: the economic woes of the capitalist world, to which Communist planners initially thought they would be immune, by last year made themselves felt on the other side...