Word: polishings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...large, airy Comedor Popular (people's dining room)* off the Plaza Espana, in Caracas, diners smacked their lips over a favorite dish: rice and black beans. Their approval marked the success of a significant experiment. For a long time, Dr. Nacio Steinmetz,† a Polish refugee scientist, had worked to develop a vitamin-rich soybean to look and taste like the common black bean which is the chief source of protein for millions of Latin Americans. The diners at the Comedor Popular had eaten the product of his work without knowing that it was anything more than the plain...
...salon and the fashion magazine, U.S. women had started wearing their hair short. Harper's Bazaar explained: "Manes and mops are being chopped . . . and shaped . . . into slicks and swirls. The wisps of the feathercut are out of mind. In every case, the look is small, the finish is polish...
Fort Apache (Argosy; RKO Radio), John Ford's first movie since his apostolically solemn Fugitive, is an unabashed potboiler. An idiotically reckless martinet (nicely played by Henry Fonda) tries to impose spit & polish on a begallused garrison in the Far West. After leading a suicidal charge against the local Indians, he is posthumously adored as a hero-except by the men (John Wayne, et al.) who had to carry out his orders. His daughter, a stock Pert Chit by the name of Philadelphia Thursday (Shirley Temple), meanwhile romances with a young officer (played, in appropriate magazine-illustration style...
...Polish delegate also condemned American coverage of last year's Polish elections, charging that prejudicial United States reporters sent back absolutely untrue reports of the balloting...
...answering a question on why the Polish government had voted in the Council not to accept the UN observers' report on the Greek Communist revolt, Katz-Suchy stated that the observers had not even left Athens...