Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan last week, three forlorn people mingled with the crowds and peered wistfully into the shop windows of the promised land. The young couple was Rumanian, the slim youth Polish. To get there, they had endured years of homelessness, hunger, danger and bitter waiting-and now that they had arrived, they could not expect to stay. They were illegal immigrants, caught on a last desperate attempt to smuggle themselves into the U.S. Temporarily, they were at liberty on bond...
...childlike smile when something pleased him, a chilling sneer when something did not. Sometimes he gesticulated wildly, once seemed near tears. Often he seemed merely bored ("Bah, I speak baby stuff!"). But whatever his crotchets, students and professors at Yale last week were flocking to the special seminar of Polish-born Count Alfred Korzybski...
...father of general semantics was born in 1879-the same year, he likes to point out, as Einstein and Stalin. The son of a Polish mathematician, he served through World War I in the Russian Army, was wounded, finally got sent to the U.S. as an artillery expert. Later, he mortgaged his estate, and spent the rest of his fortune, and more than ten years, writing the knotty 800-page bible of general semantics, Science and Sanity...
...great if he were nine inches smaller." His size sets Mike apart, even among pro basketball players. At home he requires a specially-made 7-ft. bed and an elongated reclining chair. His appetite is prodigious. He has occasionally been known to consume a dozen eggs at breakfast, polish off two steaks after a game...
Still without its musical accompaniment, Wednesday's 7:30 premiere for club members and special guests will be held behind the closed doors of Lamont Library's new Forum room. Official debut for the production is sometime in May, when special music will have been dubbed in and final polish put on the Celluloid opus...