Word: planked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...union and preaches self-reliance more stalwartly than Emerson. He gets up at 4:45 in the morning and spends his days working on the piers of San Francisco's Embarcadero. Evenings he spends in his room in a shabby McAllister Street lodging-house, bent over a plank desk, writing...
...group in the United States; and in this area living conditions as still austere as well as crowded. The people are therefore a favorite target for demagoguery of the hate-America type; and the East Ender's memory of the bitz is not overlooked by politicians with a neutralist plank, inveighing against the United States as a warmonger. The Winant Volunteers, assisting in the leadership of clubs, taking groups of children to camp on the Channel Islands and helping with relief work for the sick, seek to demonstrate the good will of the people of our country toward the people...
High Fences. Humphrey came to Washington in 1949 as one of the most bumptious, uncompromising young New Dealers ever to set foot on the Senate floor. He had just helped drive two Southern states from the Democratic National Convention by his absolute insistence on an all-out civil-rights plank. Mere mention of his name was enough to set Southern Democrats to gnashing their teeth...
...Texas, the Democratic state convention adopted a plank urging "every legal means to continue our public schools as they are, on a separate but equal basis...
Psychologist Plank would not go so far as to say that science-fiction writers are "crazy" because they reflect schizophrenic trends. Rather, he argues, these signs are becoming more conspicuous in a mechanized civilization. Science fiction may be bad science and worse fiction, but to a good wig-picker it "is a sensitive barometer of our changing mental climate...