Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shortly before the Second World War a controversial Irish mayor was convicted and imprisoned for illegal kickbacks from architects. The outraged citizens searched for a system of local government that would be less corruptable and more representative of the City's Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish immigrants. The state legislature proposed an innovative but unproved scheme of proportional representation: Plan E. The Plan also included a strong City manager and a weak City Council; each was to have a specifically defined purpose...
...week, this is a nice place to live. There is a bed, a chair, and a bureau--the bureau graced with an artificial daisy placed in a real flower pot. Also on the bureau are hairspray and perfume bottles, 3 bottles of pills, a bottle of nail polish, a container of Finast black pepper, and a large cylinder of Diamond Crystal salt. There's also a blue china dinner plate with a snapshot of a baby on it. As I'm looking at it, Lary Ann returns...
Then they cracked Polish jokes. Churchill said: "The difficulty about the Poles was that they had unwise political leaders. When there were two Poles there was one quarrel." Stalin replied: "Where there was one Pole, he would begin to quarrel with himself through sheer boredom...
...which half of the Dutch army's 60,000 men belong, a number of traditional military disciplines have also been found unacceptable to the Dutch mentality. The union has already won its case against reveille, 10 p.m. roll calls, wearing uniforms at mealtimes, and similar spit-and-polish regulations. It also got the Defense Ministry to allow soldiers to keep their hair long providing they stuffed it into nets during maneuvers. Last week the union won its biggest victory: dropping the requirement to render a formal military salute. Explained the Defense Ministry's State Secretary Joseph Mommersteeg...
...movie is cocky about its polish, to the point where the idiosyncracies of its characters over-shadow the detailed clues of what is a finely wrought plot. The clues seem presented only in afterthought, back-fitted into an otherwise superfluous setting. Sheila does not heighten interest in the hunt for the murderer's identity, as a good mystery film should. It is always more interested in showing off its cast, its settings, and its special effects...