Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last March Touré received a shipment of arms from Czechoslovakia that included 3,000 rifles and automatic weapons. Last week another shipment (the third) arrived on a Polish vessel. When Paris expressed alarm at the deals, Touré angrily denounced the "hostile attitude of French diplomacy...
These and other books on Plato, Aristotle, neo-Platonism, Demosthenes, the early Greek philosophers, Greek medicine, the early Christian writers, and the essence of humanism have appeared in Italian, Spanish, German, French, and Polish, as well as English editions...
Professional Polish. Even though he had the added job of running the Administration-wide Operations Control Board, Herter began feeling restless about having, as he saw it, too small a role in State Department decisionmaking. When the gossip about Herter's frustration broke out in the papers, Dulles began gradually turning over to Herter some broad sectors of responsibility: congressional relations, inter-American affairs, the Middle East, nuclear-test-ban negotiations. Even in these sectors, Dulles and the President still made the top-level decisions (sending troops to Lebanon, suspending U.S. nuclear tests for one year), but Herter handled...
...refused, for example, to hold a single press conference. But Herter liked the job, and his friends knew it. After he sat in as the U.S. delegate at the NATO foreign ministers' meeting in Washington (TIME, April 13), he won high praise for his professional polish from some of Europe's top diplomats...
...Eisenhower-Macmillan agreement to accept Polish and Czechoslovakian observers at the May foreign ministers' conference should indeed "look fine" to Nikita Khrushchev. Every additional conference at which the dummy governments of Russia's colonies are given recognition adds to their populations' resignation of mind, and makes it possible for Russia to keep fewer troops and tanks in such imprisoned countries to control the people. The Russian hoods are hoodwinking us again...