Word: planked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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 realistic cinema dies with a gentle curse; Vittorio De Sica's most careful film (TIME...
...André François-Poncet, longtime French High Commissioner in Germany and a "living immortal" of the Academic Franchise (see below), declared: "[Another crisis] would justify the calumnies which depict us, in all languages of the world, as the 'sick man of Europe,' the worm-eaten plank to which it would be folly to continue to cling . . . Already abroad we are being stricken from the role of great peoples...
...Some notable pals who walked the plank in earlier years: Cipriano Reyes, who mobilized packinghouse workers to catapult Perón to power in 1945, arrested (and still jailed after seven years); Miguel Miranda, Perón's onetime economic czar, ousted: Juan Bramuglia, Foreign Minister who incurred the wrath of Eva Perón, and Oscar Ivanissevich. Education Minister who wrote the pep song Peronista Boys, both forced to resign: Domingo Mercante, governor of Buenos Aires Province, humiliated and ousted; Juan Duarte, Perón's own brother-in-law and private secretary, repudiated and fired...
Louis stuck Ham for almost six years, then walked out, disguised as a carpenter with a plank on his shoulder, and was snug in Britain by next...