Word: polishers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nails: Polish is not required for females, Farrell explains, "but one time a woman came in and she'd matched her nail polish to her blouse. I thought it was so neat! I mean, she must have been a pretty together person...
SEEN & HEARD If this is Monday, Esther Grossi, 58, must be in blue, or green, or orange. The new Brazilian Congresswoman is always color coordinated. Hair, dress, shoes, nail polish: they all match, and she chooses a new hue whenever she gets the urge. With a Ph.D. in education, Grossi says her wardrobe reflects her teaching theories: have the courage to change...
Perhaps the oddest indication of Polish interest in things Jewish is a craze for kosher drinks. The hottest-selling alcoholic beverage is ``kosher vodka,'' with a label showing bearded rabbis in prayer shawls and Polish names in Hebrew-like lettering. There is also kosher beer and even kosher mineral water, not generally required of even the most orthodox of Jews, who are content to drink tap water...
...entering Israel. A Pilgrimage to Auschwitz Jews from all over the world journeyed to Poland to attend a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Nazis' most infamous death-camp complex. The solemn occasion was marred by bitter disagreements between Jewish groups and the Polish government over the degree of Jewish participation in the anniversary program. U.S.-Vietnam Ties Washington and Hanoi inched closer to establishing full diplomatic relations when the two countries agreed to exchange liaison offices. These are the first formal ties since the U.S. left Vietnam in the spring...
...despite their solemnity, the observances marking the Jan. 27 anniversary stirred old tensions between Jews and non-Jews. Ceremonies were boycotted, accusations made. Jewish leaders protested the Polish government's initial refusal to include the Jewish prayer of mourning, the Kaddish, in the main memorial ceremony. Polish officials, unyielding, dismissed the complaints as reflecting the ``personal ambition'' of individual Jewish leaders. Some Jews refused to attend the Polish ceremonies; others organized instead a Jewish observance a day earlier, on Thursday. At one point Jewish and Polish demonstrators even clashed, shouting and shoving within sight of the camp's guard towers...