Word: poznan
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...swiftly is the cold war moving that the President of the U.S., only 22 days confined to Walter Reed Hospital, came out to find a changed world scene. Workers protesting Communist rule in Poznan, Poland locked arms and marched into the fire of Communist police and militiamen, shouting "We want bread!" and "We want freedom!" (see FOREIGN NEWS). The Poznan revolt clearly heralded more trouble to come for the Communists as their Big Thaw got out of hand. Criticism was pouring into the Kremlin from Communist parties in Britain, Italy, Canada, East Germany, France, the U.S., Belgium; the Kremlin nonetheless...
...four friends-three young men and a dark-haired girl of 20-were passionately interested in aviation. They joined an amateur flying club in Poznan, western Poland, and began to ride the sky in whatever old craft they could lay their hands on. One of the men was a skilled pilot to begin with, and the others soon caught up. All four worked like Russian Stakhanovites on a plane of their own, scrounging parts and trying to make them stick together...
These two, who were boyhood chums in Poznan, personify Communist use of both brain & brawn. Balding, professorial Zaremba speaks six languages and worked as a clerk with the Nazi occupation forces as a spy for the resistance. Stocky, genial Kupczynski, who, when he stops smiling, looks like a Bowery tough, won Poland's highest medal for valor as a fighter in the resistance...
Died. Arthur Greiser, 49, prewar president of Danzig's Senate, who later as Nazi Gauleiter of Poznan province sent thousands to death camps; by hanging; before 15,000 Poles; in Poznan...
...Russian name. When his questions got completely political, I told him: "I must insist that you arrest me, and then after seeing the American consul, I will perhaps answer such questions, not now. Furthermore, if I am detained long, it might look to some as though the authorities in Poznan were afraid to allow foreign correspondents to watch the referendum...