Word: planked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vote. The woman who took most advantage of the offer was Néfissa Sid Cara, a schoolmarm who is the sister of a well-known pro-French Moslem politician. Running for the French National Assembly, she allowed no men to attend her meetings, and she had but one plank to her platform. "We want French law," one weeping woman told her. "My husband left me." "My husband took away my sons," said a veiled woman. "You must give them back to me." Néfissa's answer to those who clutched at her arms and clothing: "Vote...
...color. Hans Hartung's T 55-28 has airy life about it, yet hardly seems to justify Expert Alfred Barr's considered statement that Hartung, 54, a German turned Parisian, is "perhaps the best master of calligraphic abstraction." In 3 Avril 54, Pierre Soulages' black, plank-broad oil smears do not seem a great advance over the similar smears that first brought him attention a decade ago. Donald Hamilton Eraser's Morning Star offers at least a tenuous contact with nature: it seems to represent the crumpled ghost of a sailing ship plowing icy seas into...
Governor Furcolo's budget calling for a three per cent state sales tax is "ill-considered and a garish violation of the first plank of the Democratic party platform," Arnold M. Soloway, assistant professor of Economics, declared yesterday...
Ultimate Test. In Cooksville, Ont, Gregory Taylor was acquitted of driving with ability impaired by liquor when the constable who arrested him testified that Taylor twice walked successfully across a 2-in.-by-8-in. plank over a 12-ft. sewer excavation...
...some kind of restrictions on nonwhite immigration to Britain, Butler was in tune with an increasingly vocal segment of British opinion. The Trades Union Congress (see below) last week condemned any proposal to raise bars against Commonwealth non-whites and the Labor Party planned to insert an antidiscrimination plank in its next election program. Yet three of London's twelve leading newspapers-the Daily Mail, Daily Mirror and Daily Telegraph-supported restrictions as did a growing number of Tory M.P.s and a few Laborites. And at week's end the Daily Express announced that it had surveyed Britons...