Word: planked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rain lashes in from the Bering Sea. It rains so hard in Yakutat that fresh concrete is ruined before it has a chance to set. Farther south, parts of Annette Island are a subarctic swampland, where plank roads have to be shored up on pilings driven into the muck...
...party turned over in its sleep last week and threatened to wake up and scrap. The Conservatives chose a new Party leader, a downright man with a low opinion of Canada's war policies. He will have the opportunity of pushing William Lyon Mackenzie King off the narrowing plank on which the Liberal Prime Minister has been teetering since war began...
...Jacksonville, Fla., where the St. Johns River flows into the Atlantic, 53 men, women" & children on the excursion cruiser Ruby Lee were luckier. When the Ruby Lee let go a starboard plank, filled and sank in the mouth of the river, all the crew and passengers were saved. Captain S. E. Baitray sputtered: " 'Twould have been different a few minutes later . . . then we'd have been in the open...
...Birmingham, the election looked as if it would be just another local pushover for the Government candidates. But at the last moment an independent candidate rushed in with his nomination papers, signed by women only: Dr. Alfred William Lumsden Smith, who called himself an Independent Reprisal Candidate. His one-plank platform: Bomb Berlin...
...determined by the committee, the official policy of the peace strike will be "no convoys, no A.E.F." with a subordinate plank against racial discrimination in the armed forces, which constitutes almost complete acceptance of the program advanced by the temporary committee...