Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even an ostensibly harmless action like the choice of Beirut, Lebanon, for next year's UNESCO conference, was an occasion of friction. Polish Delegate Jan Drohojowski, who had walked in & out of the conference in a constant huff, saw a last-minute chance for what he considered a crack at the U.S. He said he hoped that next year the delegates, "especially when they visit the neighboring Holy Land, will obey the Ten Commandments and not bow down to the Golden Calf...
...reputation, her job and her home. Unable to face the truth, she has fashioned a dream world in which she is highbred, sought after and straitlaced. Her dream is her main luggage when she arrives destitute in New Orleans to "visit" her sister Stella and Stella's roughneck Polish-American husband Stanley...
...pioneer in mechanized cane-farming; of a heart ailment; in Mix, La. Wurtele invented a mechanical cane-harvester, and developed a process for converting sugar into synthetic rubber, attracted wider attention in 1939 when he proposed a plan to appease Hitler by buying him Danzig and the Polish Corridor for $70 million (Wurtele offered...
...Connected Vessels." Meanwhile, the regime is building its strength for that eventual struggle by weakening everything else in Poland. A scientist put it to me: "All Polish life is being lowered to the Russian level by the law of connected vessels."† A prime factor in the Red drive for more & more power is the secret police, which last week had its 1947 budget of $170 million upped to $230 million...
...early spring French Ambassador to Washington Henri Bonnet and Oscar Lange, Polish U.N. delegate, will speak in public meetings of the Laboratory...