Word: planked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this year, and his strategy in this election has been to kill off the rival New Order and Afrikaner Parties, absorb all anti-British South Africans into the Herenigde Party. His long-run aim is victory in the next (1948) election. His platform then will consist of one big plank: to take South Africa out of the British Empire and establish it as an independent republic. And he will dearly hope that popular strong-man Smuts, 73, will have passed from the political scene...
Congrats to Duane Kacina, our own PhM3c, who walks the plank tomorrow at 1600 with Eleanor MacDonald of Arlington. Seeyathere. S'long...
...time officials were involved; the highest ranking wrongdoer found was a plant metallurgist; 2) U.S. Steel's president, smart, suave Benjamin F. Fairless, made no attempt to defend his company, readily admitted "very, very poor management," promised that all involved "will have to walk the plank...
...life reads like a picaresque novel. It began on a bleak shelf of rock in mid-Atlantic near Tristan da Cunha. Transplanted to Rhode Island by a passing Portuguese, he became a man of proverbial strength around the Providence wharves; he could drive a spike through an oak plank with his fist. As there was constant need for this type of skilled labor, he soon acquired enough tuition to enter Brown University. He is chiefly remembered there for translating the epigrams of Martial into colloquial Amharic and designing Brooks Bros.' present trademark, a sheep suspended in a diaper...
...wish the College would lay plank walks in the Yard. . ." ". . . We have recently heard many complaints from the members of '74 of the sudden disappearance from the College Library of the books which contain the subject-matter of their themes. . ." With these weighty pronouncements did the CRIMSON's oldest ancestor, the Magenta, break upon the Harvard scene on the morning of January...