Word: polisher
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...played tight end at West Point. A native of Rockaway, N.J. (pop. 6,000), he speaks with the occasional New Jersey grumble, and bluntly. Odierno usually suffers in comparisons with the suave, diplomatic Petraeus. As a senior commander in Iraq told TIME in 2006, "If Dave is polish, Ray is spit." (See pictures of U.S. troops' 5 years in Iraq...
...Moscow who suggest that Russia’s Iskander missiles are currently all deployed on the Georgian border and that the production and installation of missiles in Kaliningrad would take considerable time. Medvedev’s declaration can only be understood as a symbolic challenge to Barack Obama. Polish President Lech Kaczynski didn’t make things any easier when he claimed last week that Obama hoped the shield project would continue and forced him to issue a non-committal denial...
...Obama returned the congratulatory call of Polish President Lech Kaczynski and discussed the U.S.-Polish alliance. After the call, Kaczynski released a statement claiming that Obama had promised "that the [U.S.] missile-defense project would continue...
Russia's European neighbors sense that Moscow is less confident than it was even three months ago. "In the event that the situation gets bad, the balance of power is already well known," Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said after Medvedev's speech. "So we should consider the announcement as a new political step, not a military...
...portrayal of Raymond’s more confident doppelgänger. While his acting evoked a certain alluring magnetism, the only minor flaw was that Cutmore-Scott’s character lacked the diversity of Breaux’s interpretation of Raymond. It’s clear from the polish of the production that director Stern knows his craft well. The show went on with a professional smoothness that’s a testament to his vision. However, it is at once obvious that “The Hyacinth Macaw” isn’t a light play. Instead...