Word: planked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...standing on deck when I saw a carriage driving furiously up to the quay, surrounded by a guard of shabby arquebussiers--a lady was dragged out of the carriage and shoved up the plank on to the ship. An old man jerked her toward me and put a letter in my hand. 'An order from the King!' said he, 'a prisoner' of State to be taken to Louisiana and delivered to the Governor...
...plank of their platform will be that election to the Chamber will save their lives, as they expect, in this event, to receive an unconditional amnesty. It is their last chance...
General elections will take place in Tokyo on May 10. The chief plank of the present Kiyoura Ministry and of the Seiyuhonto (True Friends Party) is that the Premier was appointed by the Prince Regent and that the Nation must observe the will of His Imperial Highness. The Imperial will is contested by three opposing parties: the Seyukai, the Kensei-kai and the Kakushin Club. Their program is : Parliamentary government; protecting the Constitution; prevention of undue control by the Elder Statesmen in the House of Peers...
...Irish freedom, prior to the setting up of the Irish Free State. Mr. Doheny was President of the American Association; for Recognition of the Irish Republic, and as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 1920 in San Francisco he made a fight to hammer an Irish freedom plank into the Democratic platform...
...fancy skating for women, Mme. Herman Szabo-Plank of Austria won first, with Miss Beatrice Loughan, American, second and Miss Theresa Blanchard of America, fourth...