Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grey, weather-streaked building on New York City's Flushing Meadow, unused since December, reeked of furniture polish. A sweeper swabbed a Kilroy variation off a blackboard in the main reception room of the United Nations General Assembly chamber; it had read: "The Irgun Zvai Leumi was here...
Roviano's left-wing vote had been preponderantly Communist, Anticoli's Socialist. Roviano's choice of a mayor was easy and quick-local Communist Leader Adalgiso Scacchi, a miner who picked up the gospel from Polish comrades he had worked with in the mines of France and Belgium after World War I. Sober, shrewd Scacchi was not swept off his feet by the post-election rush of citizens wanting to join his party. Said he: "Communism is something you have to learn. Sometimes it takes 20 years, often a lifetime. We only want real Communists-better...
...explained. Another in slacks stepped challengingly up to a guard. "He ain't here," she snapped. Still another looked blankly at the face of a corpse, but screamed when she saw its feet. The night before, she had painted her husband's toenails with red fingernail polish...
...week hundreds of men and boys, singly and in straggling groups, came out of the woods, trudged to the nearest police station and surrendered their arms and themselves. Many had been underground since Poland's defeat in 1939. They had fought the Germans, the Russians and the postwar Polish Government they hated...
...lives, the exterminator sputtered: "That shows how little he knows about how we worked. Why, I could have done twice as much." Hoess's beady eyes did not flicker as the sentence was read. It was death, by hanging. He got a few days of reprieve. Polish law forbids execution, even of such as Hoess, during Holy Week...