Word: polishers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their last concert of the year, the Harvard-Radcliffe Veritones fed a small but a capella-hungry Sanders Theater crowd a well-balanced meal of harmony and humor. Showcasing strong voices and varied musical styles, the Veritones performed with energy and polish, and the a capella groupies in the audience shrieked and stomped their satisfaction...
...Callbacks. Performing three original songs, a popular cover and an encore of "Down by the River-side," Onyx wowed the audience with exciting vocals and a relaxed sense of humor. The Middlebury Dissipated 8, a nine-man group which also performed before the Callbacks, sang their tunes with polish and wry humor, except for a dreadful version of Smoky Robinson's "Tracks of my Tears...
...Central Command with the idea that he might well have to fight." Five days before Saddam Hussein launched his invasion, Schwarzkopf and his staff happened to be running an exercise predicated on the possibility that Iraq might overrun Kuwait. All that was necessary after that was for Schwarzkopf to polish his plan. It became the model for Operation Desert Shield...
...obfuscation was matched in Moscow, where no one wanted to take responsibility. Responding to questions from Supreme Soviet Deputies, Gorbachev implied that the killings in Vilnius were the Lithuanians' own fault. He accused them of violating the Soviet constitution, trampling the human rights of the republic's Russian and Polish minorities and splitting the society. Negotiations with Lithuania were hardly possible, he said, "when the republic is led by such people" as Landsbergis...
...Service neophyte to tail and protect an oil-rich sheik and his shoplifting wife on spending binges across London's West End. There are tales of betrayal, accidental and cold-blooded. And there is some rough stuff. Ned remembers a beating he had suffered at the hands of a Polish military officer who then, rolling down his sleeves, offered his services as a double agent for the British. Another episode seems a conscious reprise of Heart of Darkness. Ned is sent east to find out what happened to an agent who disappeared; he turns up an account of appalling brutality...