Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...equipment was working all too well it turned out. The President's intemperate words were captured on tape, later aired nationally, and almost instantly became an issue. Polish apparatchiks rushed to explore the meaning and implication of "no-good lousy bums." That is not the language of diplomacy. It is the language of honesty, such a novel commodity on the international exchanges that the White House feigned unhappiness that the broadcasters had violated the President's privacy. In truth, Reagan handlers were genuinely concerned about the breach of faith because the next time it might be damaging...
...since its creation, the prestigious and often controversial Nobel Peace Prize has been bestowed on personalities as famous and colorful as Teddy Roosevelt, Henry Kissinger, Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin. The award has also been given to faceless organizations. In 1981, the five-person Norwegian Nobel Committee passed over Polish Trade Union Leader Lech Walesa to bestow its gold medallion and $180,000 in cash on the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees...
Although 50 Polish bishops were at St. Peter's, the country's Primate, Archbishop Jozef Glemp of Warsaw, stayed at home because of his fear of civil unrest. He celebrated an outdoor Mass at Niepokalanow (City of the Immaculate), a friary founded by Kolbe 25 miles west of Warsaw. John Paul, in a noontime address following the canonization, denounced the dissolution of the independent union Solidarity as "a violation of the fundamental rights of man and society." (Poland's state radio and television censored this criticism in its coverage of the ceremonies.) Next day, facing an audience...
...weavers, Kolbe was renowned in Polish Catholic circles long before his heroic death at Auschwitz. Fiercely devoted to the Virgin Mary, Kolbe, though often gravely ill with tuberculosis, founded a sizable Marian society, and followers started "Maryvilles" in Japan, Brazil and Illinois. Kolbe also created Niepokalanow, which became the world's largest friary. In this self-contained community of 800, the priests and brothers served in every role from fireman to mechanic. Before World War II, the friary's monthly magazine, Knight of the Immaculate, boasted an impressive 1 million circulation. Members of the community also...
While no American troops are currently in combat, the Reagan Administration is waging war on several fronts. Rather than bullets or missiles, the weapons are economic sanctions. In response to the Polish government's outlawing of the Solidarity trade union, the Administration last week took steps to raise tariffs on imports of manufactured goods from Poland. Over the past two months the U.S. has also banned the sale of American energy technology to several European companies that are supplying such equipment to the Soviet Union for its $10 billion gas pipeline...