Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Park of Culture for an open-air Mass. Some of them, like one taxi driver who had walked all night from his village twelve miles away, had turned the Pope's visit into a personal pilgrimage. Gathered together, they seemed to represent a cross section of the Polish nation. Sunburned farmers in baggy suits and wide ties stood side by side with teen-agers in blue jeans, wearing T shirts printed with words like KUNG FU. There were aged veterans, their chests bristling with medals, and pretty young girls in floral-print summer dresses. As before, red-and-white...
...altar and a gigantic reproduction of the icon of the Black Madonna. With the timing of a seasoned performer, he paused halfway to raise both arms in a gesture of blessing. Then the Pope joined 20 bishops in golden robes in a solemn ceremony beatifying Sister Urszula Ledochowska, a Polish educator who organized Catholic schools before World War I. As the Pope conferred on Sister Urszula the title "blessed," the next-to-last step in the arduous path to sainthood, a life-size portrait of the nun in simple gray habit was unveiled...
...other stops, the religious ceremony in Poznan had its political moments. The Pope praised farmers of the region for struggling to retain their "profound link with the land." Referring directly to the banned independent farmers' union, John Paul recalled the support that the late Polish Primate Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski had shown to "representatives of Rural Solidarity" during a meeting in April 1981. The crowd roared even louder when John Paul told them he had come to "kneel in this place and pay homage," in a reference to a memorial to Polish workers slain in Poznan during riots...
When the Pope finally arrived, he met a cheering throng of almost 1 million, spread out as far as the eye could see. In the tumultuous welcome, red flags emblazoned with white Polish eagles waved above the crowd along with banners proclaiming SOLIDARITY IS ALIVE. Then, just as John Paul prepared to celebrate Mass, a solitary stork soared overhead. Many saw it as an omen of good fortune...
DIED. Simcha Ehrlich, 67, Deputy Prime Minister of Israel, an uncharismatic but influential politician and a moderate voice in Menachem Begin's ruling coalition; of a stroke; in Jerusalem. A Polish-born optician who was elected to the Knesset in 1969, he became chairman of the Liberal Party and, in 1977, Begin's Finance Minister, since the Liberals were the second largest element in the victorious Likud bloc. Ehrlich took the credit, then the blame, for the government's "economic revolution," which led to Israel's chronic triple-digit inflation. He resigned the finance portfolio...