Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four nights last week the heart of Warsaw echoed to the whomp and hiss of exploding tear-gas bombs, the thud of rubber truncheons on human flesh and the taunting cries of "Gestapo, Gestapo," that came from the throats of thousands of rioting Polish university students. It was the most serious civil disturbance since the bloody Poznan rebellion of last year...
...independence from Moscow. Its unquestioned leader is a gawky, 36-year-old political philosopher whose devastating attacks on the Russians' brand of Communism have already made him a hero to Poland's students. "Leszek Kolakowski," said one ardent young Communist last week, "is much more important for Polish intellectual development than Khrushchev's speech...
...chief sticking point in Polish-German relations is the German claim to its former territories east of the Oder and Neisse Rivers, a territory about the size of Virginia. It was handed to Poland by the victorious Allies as compensation for the Polish territory seized by Russians. Adenauer has often promised that Germany would never use force to regain these lost territories; last week he went further. In a CBS interview he said that he could foresee the day when, in a United Europe, boundaries would be of less importance than they are today. In effect, Germany was not pressing...
Part of the Soviet economy's increased strain stems from the confusion caused by Nikita Khrushchev's decision to decentralize the management of Soviet industry (TIME, April 15). In addition, the troubles in Poland and Hungary not only deprived Russia of valuable imports, e.g., Polish coal, but also obliged Russia to pump hundreds of millions of dollars into the satellites to quiet their unrest...
...became the friend or acquaintance of virtually all the great thinkers of his day, from Sir Christopher Wren to Sir Isaac Newton. In time he lost his estates, was reduced to living on handouts. He died hoping that some "Ingeniose and publick-spirited young Man" might one day "polish and compleat what I have delivered rough hewen." Aubrey confessed that his frank sketches contained things "that would raise a Blush in a young Virgin's cheeke," and urged the sewing-on of "some Figge-leaves...