Word: polese
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> Poles and Jews were forbidden to marry, allegedly because of an acute housing shortage, actually to prevent population increase.
> Warsaw was governed by 70 German administrators under whom worked 24,000 Poles.
Morally, the Belgians were resigned and bitter. They obeyed but did not fraternize with German soldiers. The Nazi soldiers, under strict military orders, committed no outrages; handbills invited Belgians to report misconduct by Germans to the police. As crushing to Belgians as German domination and approaching famine was their complete...
Most white folks suppose that all colored folks are low class. Not so. U. S. Negroes "differ socially among themselves as far as the poles," have at least six classes: lower-lower, upper-lower, lower-middle, middle-middle, upper-middle, upper. Upper-class Negroes describe their inferiors as "the common...
One week last fall, many a U. S. armchair general, vicariously glorying in the dash and glamor of Stuart, Forrest and Sheridan, thought he saw cavalry go down forever with the evening sun. That first week in September the famed Polish cavalry threw itself into the path of the German...