Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...keep him in shape, or have his portrait painted in oils. There are clip-on diapers for parakeets, hairpieces and false eyelashes for poodles, snoods to keep bassets' ears out of the sterling-silver feeding bowl, bikinis, ski suits and sunglasses for vacationing types, earrings, mascara and nail polish in a dozen colors. On his birthday a pet can expect to receive blue or pink cards and summon his pals-on his own phone-for a birthday cake of liver with powdered-milk icing...
...Schneider St. Louis I never cease to be amazed by the Zionist position that the rest of the world somehow has an obligation to atone to the Jews for the losses they suffered in World War II. As a Polish Catholic, I have never made the demand that the Jews atone for the 3 million Polish Catholics who were exterminated by the Nazis. Twenty million Russians were killed, and there is no attempt to atone for their suffering...
...Lower East Side, where he still lives with his wife and their four-year-old daughter, Raab remembers being "surrounded by the kind of legendary criminals you read about-bookmakers, con artists, Jewish and Italian gangsters. I grew up with guys I later covered." The son of Polish and Austrian immigrants, Raab boxed in the 60-lb. class for the city parks department (17 wins) and later attended City College. Afterward he worked on Connecticut and New Jersey newspapers before returning to New York. Along the way, he dropped out of sight several times to bum around South America...
...smaller wonder that the pros tend to develop quirks that decorate their egos like gargoyles on a tower. Richard Bergmann, the late English titlist, once searched in vain for the perfect sphere; he went through three gross of balls before he found one worthy of him. Alex Ehrlich, the Polish prodigy, could discern no life purpose beyond Ping Pong. To this day, when he finds a promising young player he counsels, "Now the first thing you must do is quit school...
...conditions: total freedom of action and safeguards against dismissal. Jaworski accepted. "Don't you want to go in and talk to the President?" asked Haig. Jaworski's instincts recoiled. He was in a new world. He told Haig no. This temperate man, son of a Polish immigrant, had been given the job that would ultimately lead to deposing the President. There has been no confrontation of its kind in history...