Word: polisher
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...neither Sarkozy nor anyone else has yet concocted a way out of the mess created by the Irish "no." His task will be all the more complicated after the obstreperous Polish President Lech Kaczynski announced Monday that he would not sign the Treaty, saying the document was pointless after Irish voters rejected it. Sarkozy and other leaders agreed last week to push the treaty forward in the 26 other member states, with an eye to the possibility that Ireland might eventually be compelled to put the question to the people again with more success...
...Over in Austria, there was a bit of excitement when Polish and German fans exchanged the usual pregame punches, but this is no England-Germany, and once the proceedings started in the Worthersee Stadion in Klagenfurt, the Germans got down to business. And they were all business. Poland had a chance to score 36 seconds into the match when German keeper Jens Lehman bundled into his own defender as he pushed out a cross that rolled invitingly in the box. But Jacek Krzynówek launched one over the bar. From then on, the Poles were weaker than...
...aware of [Harvard] trying to contact him, and there were others too at the time, and there was much scurrying to see who can get to him,” Brolewicz said in a recent interview, recalling the competition to host the Polish leader. “But he was not easy to get to, he was in prison...it was hard, very hard...
...ahead with the speech, and so, on Commencement day, while Mexican writer and ambassador Carlos Fuentes was the one to speak in person at the ceremonies, he shared an honorary podium with Walesa, as then-University President Derek C. Bok read excerpts of a text sent by the Polish revolutionary...
...precisely such ideals that unite us, the people of America and Poland.” But with the last word, Fuentes challenged America’s “hypocrisy” in how it treats its “southern neighbors” even while it considered Polish Solidarity a friend...