Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Russia's good-neighbor contrast the same week: 1,500 farmers and farmers' wives from the Polish town of Siemiatycze (rhymes with Shame ya witch ya) trekked 100 miles to Warsaw, mobbed the U.S. embassy on nothing more than the strength of a wild rumor that the U.S. would transport anybody who wanted to settle in Alaska. Key reason why the rumor swept on through village after village: Communist officials and newspapers insisted that the rumor...
...Cannon is the author of several best-selling books, including Red Rust, about raising wheat in Minnesota, and Heirs, about Polish people in New Hampshire. An avowed liberal, she has been prominent in the Birth Control Movement ("I stood for selectivity, not race suicide"), in public school work ("You're deserting your country if you're deserting them"), and in the N.A.A.C.P. In spite of liberal tendencies, Mrs. Cannon was at "sword's point" with son-in-law Schlesinger over the last presidential election. ("My children thought I was crazy...
...tabulations, Anderson added, did not include youths who had quit school to buy gas, parts and polish for their jalopies...
...Perfect Furlough. The usual soldier farce, but Director Blake Edwards has turned it out with professional polish. Good conduct medal: Tony Curtis...
...Perfect Furlough. The usual soldier farce, but Director Blake Edwards has turned it out with professional polish. Good conduct medal: Tony Curtis...