Word: planked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...elected in 1937 as the candidate of Conservatives and dissident Radicals (of which he was one). The Conservatives winked at a plank in his platform promising honest elections, for they were used to winning by such practices as quarantining entire districts, placing voting booths in trucks which stopped only for Conservative voters, incapacitating opposition pollwatchers by sneaking laxatives into their food. But once settled in the Casa Rosada (Argentina's White House, which is pink), President Ortiz brought down the wrath of his Conservative supporters by taking his platform seriously. Honest elections might have perpetuated the Radicals in power...
...obey his teacher. . . shall care for him, feed him, and put him to bed after washing his teacher's feet. The student shall avoid honey, meat, sleep in the daytime. . . shoes, love, anger, and the gaze and touch of women." His bed, according to Spartan Sorokin, must be a plank, and during his years in training he shall not see a woman, for "women make men soft...
...executive committee of the HSU, in accepting Gottlieb's resignation, said, "We regret that we feel forced to accept Alan Gottlieb's resignation from the presidency. The program adopted by the membership of the Student Union calls for opposition to any aid to the belligerents as a fundamental plank in its anti-war program, and we cannot but feel that Gottlieb's advocacy of aid to Great Britain and support of the Administration's program is in contradiction with our desire to keep the Student Union an anti-war organization...
...platform of the opposition party was issued by President Alan Gottlieb '41 yesterday. It favored material aid to Britain, solidification of the Western hemisphere, and sanctions against Japan in its foreign policy and urged the preservation of social democracy under President Roosevelt in its domestic plank...
When Hop & crew walked the plank last winter into reorganization, A. G. & E. Corporation (which controls the $1,000,000,000 system's operating properties) and A. G. & E. Company (which used to control CORP.) became charges of New York Federal Judge Vincent Leibell, with SEC looking on. To insure impartiality, Judge Leibell appointed a separate trustee for Co., because its future (apart from its minority interest in some of CORP.'S junior bonds) depends on what it can get out of suing CORP. Objective of the suit: back in 1933, Hoppy had tried to escape...