Word: pulaski
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...painfully earnest schoolgirl in a Warsaw classroom rattled off a quaintly colorful description of the U.S. Revolutionary War. Excerpt: "So the farmers rose up. At the head of the fighters stood a farmer, George Washington. And the distinguished Thomas Jefferson was there too. The great Polish fighters, Kosciusko and Pulaski, also took part in the fight. In 1776 the uprisers were victorious. The Congress of the U.S. adopted the Constitution, and the President of the U.S. was the former leader of the fight for freedom, George Washington." By such deft vignettes, CBS's See It Now presented "Poland...
...complain that "lowincome" families drive up to food distributing centers in taxis or new cars. Said one: "When I saw one man stuffing that food into the trunk of his brand-new automobile. I figured that something was wrong with the system." W. A. Moore, who oversees distribution in Pulaski County. Ark., says that about half of the people on the county's free-food rolls would be removed if they were investigated, but there are not enough county workers to check on them. Taxpayers-and politicians-have learned that opposition to the program is extremely unpopular. The program...
...Sylvia Sidney and Diana Lynn suffered and suffered because they chose careers instead of settling for marriage and babies. But the ladies shared some of the week's agony. The General Electric Theater offered Johnnie Ray, the crybaby singer, in a drama about an emotional vocalist named Johnnie Pulaski who nobly spurned fame and fortune because his boss wanted him to sing under an Anglo-Saxon stage name...
After two years in Frankfort, he went back to Pulaski County and tried for the local political plum: county judge. In the election of 1929 he won handily, and moved into the office his father and grandfather had occupied before...
...Republican nomination for the Senate vacancy created by "Happy" Chandler's resignation. It was an audacious bid (only twice before in Kentucky's history had the voters sent a Republican to the Senate), and Cooper gave it all he had. Once again he tried his Pulaski County handshaking technique. The system is simple: Cooper drives to the edge of a town, gets out at one end of Main Street and walks up one sidewalk and down the other, in and out of shops, greeting everyone he encounters with a handshake and a simple statement: "I'm John...