Word: polisher
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...survivor he'd known since his boyhood. This on a day when, in contrast to previous pontiffs who'd taught that the Jews' exile from their land had been punishment for the death of Jesus, John Paul II took the unprecedented step of blessing the state of Israel. The Polish pontiff, who grew up among Jews, may well have succeeded in turning the page on his church's relationship with the faith out of which it grew...
...because the author of the new novel In America (Farrar Straus Giroux; 387 pages; $26) is the formidably intelligent critic Susan Sontag. Ergo, a long story that looks like a historical romance, a celebration of a 19th century woman who, in contemporary parlance, had it all--devoted husband (a Polish count, no less), passionate younger lover and glittering career--must be hedged about with postmodern ironies, runic clues to the reader not to mistake surface for substance. Mustn...
...Members said that their mental preparation and their high level of musical polish helped them win the semifinals...
...called the name of Lisa Marie Presley's fiance, John Oszajca, "unpronounceable" [PEOPLE, Feb. 14]. But if 40 million people can pronounce the name Oszajca correctly, why can't you? Please don't let your Anglo-Saxon bias impair your ability to pronounce Slavic names, especially Polish ones. Not being able to pronounce a name correctly denigrates and debases not only its bearer but also the country of its origin. Ethnocentricity isn't funny in our rapidly shrinking global village. We all need to make the effort to pronounce names correctly and not make fun of them. Because, frankly...
Ford joined the group of legislators pushing General Dwight Eisenhower to run for President. Soon Ford was on the delegation with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to monitor the Korean cease-fire. Then he went to Saigon: "I remember the French generals with all their spit and polish giving us a two-hour briefing on how they were going to win the war in Vietnam." It would be President Ford who inherited the final convulsion of that tragic war, made indelible by the pictures of desperate Vietnamese on a rooftop stairs trying to get on a departing helicopter. Ford...