Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...traditionally choleric and vehemently nationalistic nation the twin tempests of war and social upheaval have left a hot and churning sea of Polish emotions. The present government in carrying out long needed land reforms, in outlawing the classically Prussian type military elique, and in actively combatting anti-Semitism, an evil deeply rooted in the Polish scene, has created a wealthy, influential, and fanatical opposition. The purpose of this opposition is not the reconstruction of Poland but the reestablishment of the landed and military nobility that for so long dominated that country. Their armed underground has, it is said...
...Twin Victories...
...Their twin-engined Mariner, out on a photographic mission, had crashed and exploded on a 1,000-ft. plateau of snow and ice. The six survivors had food, drink and fuel, a half-burned fuselage for shelter. When at last the rescue plane appeared, they got directions by signal light to walk to the nearest open water, eight miles away. A trail over the ice was blazed for them with flags and dye markers dropped from the plane. Five walked; the sixth, more badly hurt than the rest, was drawn on an improvised sled to the water's edge...
...Manhattan's twin-towered Waldorf-Astoria, 125 of the season's debutantes danced their way into society while eager sub-debs looked enviously on. The event: the nth annual Debutante Cotillion and Christmas Ball, to benefit the New York Infirmary for Women and Children. The sponsor: Coty...
...Takers. But the other Bretton Woods twin, the World Bank, was not growing up to be such a credit to its founders. It was beginning to be regarded as almost a wayward child. There was still no taker for the $30,000-a-year job (tax free) which President Eugene Meyer resigned. And the Bank itself, with an assist from Treasury Secretary John W. Snyder, bungled the announcement of another resignation. As a matter of courtesy, Vice President Harold D. Smith thought he ought to hand in his resignation, let the new president keep him or name a new vice...