Word: planked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edstrom takes greatest pride, however, in the Courier-Journal, the largest liberal paper in the South. A long line of progressive owners and editors has made possible its uniquely independent plank, proving, Edstrom believes, that "honest publishers make honest newspapers, and honest journalism pays in the long...
...biggest body of opinion in the U.S. last week gave the No. 1 plank in President Roosevelt's foreign policy all the support that he could ask or want. In Cleveland, at a conference sponsored by the Federal Council of Churches of Christ, leaders of some 25,000,000 U.S. Protestants voted unanimous, unconditional approval of the Dumbarton Oaks plan for world security...
They were already making attempts to reclaim their soil. On dry isolated spots farmers hoed sugar beets, tended their barnyard fowl. Plank walks were set on fences above the water. At one place dike workers mended the torn sea wall in the age-old manner. A score of them hauled on the ropes of a leaden pile driver, keeping time to the chant of a greybeard...
...electors on the ballot. Mindful of the Texas fracas, Governor Thomas L. Bailey had assured Mississippi that all nine electors promised to support the Roosevelt-Truman ticket. But last week, long after the state's Sept. 7 deadline, the four anti-Roosevelt electors apparently decided that the racial plank of the Democratic platform was "obnoxious." Day later, Gov. Bailey said he would call a special session of the Legislature, ask for a law which would force all electors to vote for the State's choice, i.e., Franklin Roosevelt...
After having had one last look at the Touraine, I caught my DE at New York, N. Y. Immediately upon coming aboard I found myself in hot water (Cowie coffee to you). As I stepped from the gang plank I saluted the Flag and tipped the Doorman. How did I know he was the Officer of the Deck...