Word: polisher
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...little after 5:00 am in my home in Hong Kong when Jerzy Dudek, the Polish goalkeeper of Liverpool FC, saved a penalty from Andriy Shevchenko, a Ukrainian playing for AC Milan. The save ended the most exciting sporting event you will ever see, secured for Liverpool the European soccer championship for the first time for 21 years, and allowed me to breathe. Within seconds, my wife had called from London, and the emails started to flood in - the first from TIME's Baghdad bureau, others from Sydney, London, Washington, New York. In my fumbled excitement, I misdialed my brother...
Rejoice! As we approach Commencement, we celebrate our warriors in Crimson garb. The Department of Harvard Athletics (XXXXL) will have a record-tying 14 new trophies to polish on its mantle after the most successful season in fair Harvard’s history. With their victory over Princeton, ironically the school which previously held sole claim to the record for Ivy League championships, the men’s heavyweight crew team placed an exclamation point on a memorable season which saw seven men’s and seven women’s sports claim titles in their respective leagues...
Kieslowski illustrates each of the Ten Commandments in an hour-long story. Originally made for Polish TV, those tales, whispering instead of thundering their morals, form, as a movie, a tender and unpretentious epic about ordinary people striving to be good in an indifferent world...
Underneath the polish, however, Zielinski has his insecurities about where he came from and where he's headed. He came to West Point as a rebel. Growing up among the preppies of Fairfield, Conn., the brother of a Princeton-grad investment banker and a son of a media executive, he was drawn to military life because he wanted something more than just a good job. He originally had his heart set on going into the Navy to become a fighter pilot, but when he visited West Point, he fell in love with its emphasis on the basic relationship of leader...
...Although Polish, Bulgarian, and Romanian societies exist, Eastern Europeans lack a united organization...