Word: plank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the 1948 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, a handful of Southern delegates walked out in protest against a strong civil rights plank in the party platform. Reconvening three days later in Birmingham, rebelling Democrats set themselves up as the States' Rights Party, nominated Governor Strom Thurmond for President. His wife at his side, Thurmond campaigned in earnest, sounded alarms against "the federal gestapo," wound up with a popular vote of 1,169,063 and the electoral votes of Alabama. Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina...
These so-called Bliss Fellows are John N. Plank, instructor in Government; Thomas E. Skidmore, instructor in History; and John Warmack, Jr., who is now on leave of absence...
From ground level to about 16 feet down, the earth beneath the Abri Pataud is a series of thin layers, like a plank of plywood. Each layer, or stratum, is half-an-inch or so thick. Many of these strata constitute "occupation layers": buried within each are flint and bone objects that accumulated as the layer slowly accumulated during geological history. Some of the layers represent a year's occupation of the Abri Pataud; others contain the relics of 10, 20 or more years. A few yield no bones or man-made objects for they were laid down while...
Both Kennedy and Plank agreed that Betancourt is one of the most heartening figures in Latin America today. In running an anti-communist government that is eliminating corruption, "shouldering its responsibility with regard to the labor movement," and finishing payment of a two billion dollar debt, Betancourt is creating an image of democracy that will help to improve United States' relations with Latin America, Kennedy said...
Communists say that nationalized industry will solve all Venezuela's problems, and they criticize the Alliance for Progress. However, they know little of Marxist doctrine, Plank asserted...