Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...election day, one of Burke's precinct captains greeted voters in Polish, but the final word of his lecture was clear in any language: "Epton." Urging people to vote Republican "is a big nut to swallow," the precinct worker explained, "but I've lived in this neighborhood 76 years, and we don't want it to change." Race was clearly the overriding concern. "The whites should be with the whites and the blacks with the blacks," said another precinct captain...
Betty Wygodska, 61, stood impatiently in line as she waited her turn at the microphone on the small stage in the middle of the capital's cavernous Convention Center. A babel of Polish, German, Hungarian and heavily accented English surrounded her as hundreds of middle-aged and elderly men and women milled about the hall. Finally, when she got her chance to speak, she simply announced her name and then, to identify herself further, rattled off nervously the names of the three Nazi concentration camps she was sent to after the Gestapo arrested her in 1943 in Warsaw...
Former Union Leader Lech Walesa was in a combative mood last week when three policemen turned up at his apartment in the Polish seaport of Gdansk. The cops wanted to detain him for questioning, but the folk hero of the country's now outlawed Solidarity movement refused to go. His reason: the police could not produce an arrest warrant. Said Walesa: "You should abide by the laws." Momentarily nonplussed, the police retreated, but they returned almost immediately to tell Walesa that they would take him away by force if necessary. Finally, Walesa was whisked to a militia headquarters...
...Polish television announced Walesa's release, saying only that he "did not confirm" the fact of his clandestine meetings. Walesa's wife Danuta, who was later ordered to report for a 2½-hour interrogation session, gave Polish authorities no further information beyond the fact that her husband had been absent from their home for three days and that he was "a grownup person." Even Mieczyslaw Wachowski, Walesa's occasional chauffeur, was called in for questioning by the suspicious police...
...Polish government seemed reluctant to press the matter much further. After his release, Walesa told journalists that he had cited to his interrogators a declaration by official Government Spokesman Jerzy Urban, to the effect that meetings with ex-Solidarity leaders were not in themselves illegal unless the purpose was to plan an illegal act. Said the defiant Walesa: "I'll do it again. I will have another meeting...