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Word: polisher (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assumed the Chinese would welcome us as fellow oppressed peoples because we were all minority students. Thirteen of us were black. There were two Puerto Ricans, two Chicanos; one girl was of German descent and one fellow was of Polish ancestry. The only Oriental in our group was a Japanese-American girl whose parents grew up near Tokyo. One of the Chicanos, who became a U.S. citizen only six weeks before we left the country, told a reporter covering our trip preparations that the Chinese "are interested in the Latin community." We were also the youngest group to visit China...

Author: By Ronald W. Wade, | Title: Learning From Liu Shou-Shieu | 2/8/1974 | See Source »

...waves a guest into his small carriage house on Prices Alley in the historic old section of Charleston, that he is wearing a pair of rumpled slacks, sport shirt with tail out, and a pair of soft black moccasins that have not lately seen much spit and polish. Yet the short gray hair is still carefully combed straight back, the lean jaw still juts. Taut and fit as ever at 59, Westmoreland swims eight laps a day in good weather and is able to play golf and tennis for most of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONALITY: Civilian Westmoreland | 1/21/1974 | See Source »

...same thing happened to a 1971-72 production of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera and a 1973 Academy staging of Jean Genet's The Screens. Lichtenstein has also brought in a wide variety of visiting theatrical attractions, from Jerzy Grotowski's Polish Theater Lab to the Whirling Dervishes of Turkey to the Peter Brook-Royal Shakespeare Company production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, which appeared following a Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Rebirth in Brooklyn | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

...Israeli army's daring and successful counterthrust across the Suez Canal. Likud's greatest obstacle to victory is clearly Menachem Begin, who has led the opposition since 1948. Born 60 years ago in Brest Litovsk, Begin (pronounced Bay-ghin) came to Palestine with the Polish Army in 1942 and soon set up an anti-British terrorist organization, the Irgun Zvai Leumi. Among the Irgun's acts of savagery under his command were the blowing up of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem in 1946, the hanging of two British sergeants, and the massacre of at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Progress at Kilometer 3152 | 1/7/1974 | See Source »

Savalas' Kojak is far less violent and ready for the chase than CBS'S Mannix. He solves crimes with his head, like a Polish Sherlock Holmes. In last week's episode, fragments from a dead man's glasses ultimately led him to the heart of a crooked urban-renewal scheme. This week he pieces together clues from a drug addict that set him on the trail of a fellow detective turned criminal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A Polish Sherlock | 12/31/1973 | See Source »

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