Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faces of the Polish women in your picture, and I want to try to tell them and others who consider the U.S. a rich country that the dollar sign is an inadequate picture of us and our country. It is in our being able to believe, think, write and speak as we choose, to dream of and work for a better and happier world for our children and for children everywhere...
...billion program containing the Administration's request for authority to barter U.S. farm surpluses to Iron Curtain nations in return for strategic materials. The bill also allows the Administration to complete the second half of a $95 million agreement that provides for loans to Poland and payment in Polish currency for U.S. farm surpluses...
...final testing of power came at a special meeting of the powerful, 130-odd-man party Central Committee, which lasted from June 22 to June 29. According to Polish Communists (who often have a good pipeline to the Kremlin), Molotov may even have sought the meeting, confident that his side had the top hand. Khrushchev proposed that the first item of the agenda should be the current situation of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union. Molotov countered with the proposal, meant to put Khrushchev on the defensive, that the international position be considered, "in the light of attempted imperialist...
...Isaac Deutscher (245 pp.; Coward-McCann; $4.50), is a sheaf of essays mostly written during the '50s further bolstering the author's accurate 1953 prediction (in Russia: What Next?) that the Soviet political tundra was due for a big thaw after Stalin's death. Indeed, Polish-born Author Deutscher consumes an inordinate amount of time and space just crowing ("As to my severe critics, I shall only ask how many of them would venture to republish now in book form the views they expressed on Soviet prospects six, seven, or only three years...
Press-On Nail Polish. Plastic strips to be used in place of nail polish were put on the market by Harrison Laboratories of New York City. The strips come in ten shades and various shapes, are pasted on and trimmed with an emery board. Price: $1.10 for four sets...