Word: zygmunt
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...satellites who did appear did well. Hungary finished third (after Italy and Germany), and Poland's Zygmunt Chychla won the welterweight crown. The biggest loser was Tourney Director Eduardo Mazzia, who hadn't known the Russians were only shadow boxing. He had to pick up the hotel tab for the 28 boxers and trainers who had stayed in Minsk...
...last week's UNO Security Council wrangle over Greece, Polish Delegate Zygmunt Modzelewski fluttered his hearers by siding with Britain. Correspondents pricked up their ears. Was he really deviating from the Russian line...
This stinging accusation drew a sputtering answer and a significant admission from Warsaw officials in London. Said their spokesman, Foreign Affairs Under Secretary Zygmunt Modzelewski...
...life Zygmunt Zygielbojm fought the good fight for the Jewish people of Warsaw. When the Germans came he organized workmen's battalions. At the hour of surrender he stood before the Germans, defying them in a fiery speech and prophesying: "We shall perish, but we will never go to your ghetto...
...completely outside of his head." In Haiti he meets the elderly lady tourist ("white hair, white shoes, white shawl . . . like . . . the whitewashed front of the hotel") and her ravishing Irish maid, on whose head admiring Frenchmen coyly dropped bougainvillea blossoms. In Paris and Manhattan he meets the Polish photographer Zygmunt Pisik, whose German mistress changed his name to Johann von Schönberg to start him off right. His French mistress pushed him right up the ladder by making him Henri de Beaumont. He became famous for his studies of nude ladies on bearskin rugs...