Word: planked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Lieut. General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla overthrew the ultra-Conservative regime of President Laureano Gomez last summer, some U.S. Protestant missionaries hopefully reported an apparent slackening in government restrictions on Protestants in Colombia. But President Rojas is a Conservative too, and state Catholicism is a prime plank of any Conservative government in Colombia. Last September the Rojas regime banned Protestant activity in 18 "mission territories" in remote parts of the country. Last week the government announced a further curb: Protestants may no longer engage in religious activities outside their churches, though within the churches they will not be molested...
...they still call me a dictator?" President Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza mused one day last week, as he chatted with a visitor on the plank porch of his Tamarindo ranch house. "Our jails are empty of political prisoners. Our press is as free as a bird. The newspapers attack me all the time. I let them. They can call me anything but an s.o.b." The President laughed: "I won't stand for that...
Although the issue which caused Shivers to support Eisenhower in 1952 was the tidelands plank in the Democratic platform, members of both sides readily admit that the tidelands question was of only superficial importance. What the Shivers group really objected to was "Trumanism" and the Fair Deal. The "Shivers Democrats" now endorse virtually every G.O.P. policy, but they know that to be Republican in traditionally one-party Texas is political suicide...
...more serious side of politics, the Digest focuses on the Administration's inconsistencies with a column called "Pledges and Hedges." In it, Republicans are shown through speeches and statements denying their platform plank by plank. But perhaps the most valuable pieces in the Digest are those not swiped, but written by the staff. An exposure of the Committee for Constitutional Government was the most recent...
...that's O.K.-now for old 'Stinks' "), or merely stretching a chum out on a medieval rack. On nature walks, she likes to collect poisonous mushrooms ("Chuck those out-they're harmless"), would hardly ever go boating without making at least one lowerclassman walk the plank. Faced with a faculty frown ("Hand up the girl who burnt down the East Wing last night"), she can look angelic; but occasionally she must pay for her crimes by writing lines ("I must not smoke cigars during prayers. I must not smoke cigars during...