Word: planked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Truman's backing, took immediate heart at another Truman press conference remark: "I am not a bandwagon fellow. Don't get that in your head." Later, Stevenson's supporters found cause for optimism when Truman appeared before the Democratic Platform Committee and recommended a civil-rights plank along Adlai's moderation lines...
Then McCormack's hand-picked moderates on the subcommittee retired to hammer out the plank. No one familiar with the unpredictable Democrats was willing to guess what shape it would take. But one thing was certain: civil-rights thunder was going to continue to mutter over the Democrats for a long time to come...
...tough, bald-pated Wladyslaw Gomulka, once known as Poland's "Little Stalin," walked the plank. He was expelled from the Polish Communist Party for Titoist tendencies, and one of his former colleagues on the Politburo scornfully charged that lifelong Communist Gomulka had become "a symbol of reaction for the bourgeoisie and rich peasants." Nearly seven years later, in a characteristically Marxist twist of fate, 51-year-old Wladyslaw Gomulka's appeal to "reactionaries" turned out to be his political salvation...
South Carolina (20): All instructed for Governor George Bell Timmerman Jr. They may go later to Stevenson if the delegates approve of the civil-rights plank...
Virginia (32): A probable early-ballot, unit-rule vote to Lyndon Johnson, with a later swing to Stevenson if the civil-rights plank seems satisfactory...