Word: planked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fight. In Secaucus, N.J., Tavern Owner Henry Krajewski launched his second consecutive bid for the U.S. presidency, announced the main plank in his 1956 campaign platform: annexation of Canada...
...Democratic Convention, a civil rights plank may touch off a North-South fight so hot that Southern delegates will bolt the party. The chance that this will happen is increased by the accepted probability that Eisenhower will win whether or not the South bolts. Some Southerners may feel that 1956 is a good year to stand on "principle" and to express the vigor of their pro-segregation feelings through a third party...
Umberto D. A man walks the plank of old age, and the Italian realist cinema dies with a gentle curse: Vittorio De Sica's most careful film (TIME...
Umberto D. A man walks the plank of old age, and the Italian realist cinema dies with a gentle curse: Vittorio De Sica's most careful film (TIME...
...supported by Democrats and Republicans alike. Typically, the Stevenson solution for the farm problem is merely to try harder than the Republicans have tried, using any available means--including 90 percent price supports if necessary--to boost the farmer's income. The G.O.P. "made off with the Democratic farm plank" in 1952, Mr. Stevenson contends, but "returned it immediately after the election." On other main issues of his current campaign, such as the Administration's "giveaway" of public resources, its favoritism toward big business, and its "rattling of the saber" in world affairs, the author similarly charges that the G.O.P...