Word: planked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pressure Off. Republicans tried to take foreign policy out of the campaign. They did this with a plank most carefully nailed and glued together by Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenburg. The plank closely followed the party's Mackinac Declaration of last September, advocating international organization and "peace forces" to put down aggressors...
cabbage patch, a 14-year-old French lad joined us and clapped his hands in delight. An old man picked up a wooden plank and tried to crush the skull of one of a file of German prisoners who were being paraded down the thoroughfare. Men and women leaned on their picket fences and smiled ironically at their erstwhile masters now humiliated before their eyes...
...Progressives are realists. They know that the United States cannot buy the friendship of other nations. . . . Progressives will not cooperate in any efforts to force the United States to buy an international pig in a beautiful poke. . . ." Then the Progressive Party framed its foreign-policy plank: "Our greatest contribution to world peace will be determined by what America does for Americans...
Speaking in Manhattan two days apart, more explicitly than either has before, New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey and Ohio's Governor John W. Bricker were substantially agreed on a Republican foreign-policy plank. Its keynote: "realistic" internationalism, solidly based on national self-interest...
...Artist. Where the painter of these remarkable canvases might be, nobody who looked at them knew. After France fell, 67-year-old Vlaminck (rhymes with plank) was reported to be well treated by the Nazis (TIME, June 9, 1941). Since then nothing more has been heard of him. Maurice de Vlaminck's father was a Belgian who taught music in Paris. Tall and athletic, young Maurice first supported himself as a professional bicycle racer, later as a Paris nightclub musician. But his real passion was painting...