Word: polishes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...neatly resolved at the halfway mark. Once Newman has his formula, Torn Curtain becomes blatant chase melodrama. There is no more characterization and the emphasis switches from Newman and Andrews to the supporting characters involved in the escape from East Berlin: the leader of the Resistance bus, a Polish ex-countess with problems, a villainous ballerina...
SLASK (MUZA). The Polish Song and Dance Ensemble sings songs of Silesia (Slask...
...that the phrase is offensive, but replies that without it the Tito regime would not have recognized the Vatican's jurisdiction over the Yugoslav Catholics in spiritual matters. Casaroli's critics also point out that his judgment is not infallible. Long after it was evident that the Polish government would not let Pope Paul enter the country for the ceremonies marking the 1,000th anniversary of its conversion to Christianity, Casaroli kept insisting that the trip could still be arranged...
Family Saloons. Royko remembers his boyhood as just the right background for a future columnist. Born in a middle-class Polish neighborhood, he got to know the city by tagging along after his father, a "tavern tycoon," who bought and sold one saloon after another. As he grew older, he graduated to important jobs, such as transporting money for a bookie operating out of one of his father's taverns...
...Other spelling problems posed by landmarks bearing Polish names: Bobrytski Woods, Pulaski Park, Grabreski Road, Kosciuszko School...