Word: polishes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Polish immigrants, Waner (ne Jan Wojnarowski) confessed at one point: "My English ain't so good. I didn't learn it until I was nine." Waner alienated Chicago's militant civil rights groups by opposing open housing, then blundered into a vow to fire Chicago's able Police Superintendent Orlando W. Wilson, whom he labeled a "$30,000-a-year con artist...
Manchester still details some brusque actions by Johnson or his aides that could have been handled with more polish. Yet he also reports that when one L.B.J. aide pressured him to move immediately into Kennedy's oval office from his vice-presidential suite in the Old Executive Office Building because it would "give the people confidence," Johnson barked back: "People will get confidence if we do our job properly. Stop this. Our first concern is Mrs. Kennedy and the family." When an anxious assistant tried to talk Johnson into riding in a car instead of endangering himself by walking...
...Robert Preston harmonized about marital disharmony in a scene from I Do! I Do!; pint-sized Norman Wisdom sang the razzmatazz title song from Walking Happy. It was Broadway at its belt-'em-out best, a show with pace, style, wit, suspense, and the kind of well-practiced polish that makes all the slapdash TV spectaculars look tawdry by comparison...
Time was when Norris Bostwick, a 39-year-old New York restaurant cashier, liked to polish off ten hot dogs before dinner. He weighed 399 lbs. and was rejected by every girl he met, as well as by the U.S. Army. Walking up one flight of stairs, he recalls, was a major effort, exiting from a cab became a three-minute ordeal. Now life is considerably lighter and brighter for Bostwick: in ten months he has shed 170 lbs. How? By belonging to Weight Watchers Inc., an organization that is making such dramatic reductions commonplace...
...next two years, little kids--and big kids too -- better get to U.C.L.A. basketball games in time for layup drills. The invincible Bruins will very likely polish off their next 60 enemies with the same minimal effort they needed to waltz to the 1967 national championship...