Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regrettable that in its coverage of President Nixon's visit to Khatyn, the village near Minsk where 149 Byelorussians perished at the hand of the Nazis, the press ignored another massacre not far away. In Katyn, near Smolensk, more than 4,000 Polish officers taken prisoner by the Russians at the outset of the war were executed by NKVD troops in April...
...Russians blamed the Nazis for these atrocities, but as an officer in the Polish underground then, I received firsthand, from Red Cross investigators on-the-spot information-later corroborated by a U.S. congressional committee-that the massacre had in fact been perpetrated by the Soviets. It is noteworthy that in the Nuremberg trials, Nazi leaders, at Soviet insistence, were accused of the murders, and despite the presence of a Soviet judge on the tribunal, they were never convicted...
...favorites turned out to be a powerful Dutch team and the Poles, a surprise contender. The Dutch, with soccer's finest player, Johan Cruyff, struggled through some ragged early games, but by last week they were attacking with precision. The Polish team, which upset England in the elimination rounds, arrived in West Germany relatively unknown. Though the Poles do not favor the star system, not even the most solid collective front could hide Grzegorz Lato, a great right forward who leads the team's bruising, tireless attack. Going into last weekend, the Polish team had the best record...
MICHEL PONIATOWSKI, 52, Minister of State and Minister of Interior. "Ponia," as he is known everywhere, is Giscard's closest friend and crony in or out of the government. A patrician with royal Polish ancestry-one of his forebears was a marshal in Napoleon's army-Ponia-towski has known Giscard since student days, and he is distantly related to Giscard's wife. He helped Giscard set up his Independent Republican Party in 1966. Well before Pompidou's death, Poniatowski had worked quietly to line up the centrist parties' support that proved so crucial...
...early-spring weather conditions, can compete with teams like Miami that can schedule 50-and 60-game seasons to prepare for the World Series showdown. Harvard, unquestionably a class Eastern team, must play against tremendous odds in a tournament in which the other teams have had long seasons to polish and refine their acts...