Word: polishes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...came to this country as a young Polish immigrant with little money, and began work as a milliner in the old Chandler Co. department store in Boston. Saving from her weekly salary, she soon launched the real estate career which left her, as many friends used to say, "practically owning Harvard Square...
...communiqué published by the Polish news agency P. A. P. was just that. It spoke of "brotherly friendship and complete unanimity of views"; yet a quick look at the guest list put the lie to that in a hurry. Gathered in Warsaw last week were Premiers, Presidents and party bosses of the Warsaw Pact nations: Russia's Brezhnev and Kosygin, Bulgaria's Todor Zhivkov, Czechoslova kia's Antonin Novotny, East Germany's Walter Ulbricht, Rumania's Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Hungary's Janos Kadar, Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka...
...others, and he rechristens each one in his own high style. His present girls include Neferzouzou, Bertha von Paraboum, Bettina Uranium, Nadia Safari, Victoria Nankin, Natasha von Turmanov, Coral Lazuli and Sofia Palladium. Among the alumnae are Lili Lapudeur, Rapha Temporel and Bernardin's alltime favorite, a Polish-German named Dodo d'Hambourg...
...Habsburgs still thought of him as the best defender of their particular brand of earth. At 71, senile and just two years short of death, he was dispatched to the War of Polish Succession. Outnumbered 5 to 1 by the forces of France, he failed miserably. Years later, Frederick the Great, remembering his days of apprenticeship, mourned the fate of both Eugen and Marlborough. "What a humbling reflection for our vanity," he wrote. "The greatest geniuses end up as imbeciles. Poor humanity, boast of your glory if you dare...
...found Dr. King gracious, warm, humble, and above all sincere. I did not sense this "slickness" nor this "air of good living almost of opulence" you refer to, nor does Dr. King's "smooth polish" remind me of a "movie star" or of a "foreign car salesman...