Word: warsaw
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...symbol of the new Poland when I went to call on a quite ordinary Pole in Warsaw. His address turned out to be a large building with several entries. Since I had no apartment number for him, I asked a man for directions...
Like anybody else, the New York Times makes mistakes. A fortnight ago, it reported from Warsaw that the Mariavite Sect (a Polish offshoot of the Roman Catholic Church) "does not recognize the authority of the Pope and [its] clergy are not obliged to practice chastity." Last week the chaste Times coughed discreetly and admitted that "chastity" was not the right word: it should have been "celibacy...
...last month all but one of the 16 were still either in prison or had begun working for the Communists. That one, Kazimierz Baginski, still struggled for democracy in Warsaw as press officer in Stanislaw Mikolajczyk's Polish Peasant Party...
...sandy-haired, wispy-mustached Czeslaw Wycech and a handful of followers fell upon the offices of Mikolajczyk's party newspaper, Gazeta Ludowa. They took over, Wycech boasted, "not by force, but by revolutionary methods." The result was that Mikolajczyk's own paper was the only one in Warsaw to announce flatly that he had "shamelessly and mysteriously" fled the country...
...Stalingrad and Warsaw, which the Germans destroyed, I often saw eight and ten people living in a single small room...