Word: planked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could disagree with the report's findings, they could hardly accept its recommended remedies. The liberals demanded that the National Committee elicit no-discrimination pledges from all state and local G.O.P. groups on pain of expulsion, and require Mississippi's Republicans to drop the pro-segregation platform plank they adopted in 1964. The party's congressional leadership, urged the report, should reject converts such as South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond and Representative Albert Watson unless they state their "agreement with the cardinal Republican principle of equal opportunity for all Americans" before crossing the aisle...
...owed his national reputation to his fire-and-brimstone speech on behalf of a plank at the 1948 convention, which separated the Democrats from the Dixiecrats in short order. Senator Humphrey established himself as one of Washington's most voluble men-Johnson was later to say that "the time it takes Humphrey to prepare a speech is the time it takes to draw a deep breath"-and he offended many of his seniors, including those who controlled committee assignments and the fate of the bills he introduced in profusion (the first was for a medicare program...
...brand of care was apt to be debilitating, Pierce County Prosecutor John G. McCutcheon contended. As McCutcheon told ft, Boehme and Mary were working around the family's new 40-ft. cabin cruiser last June 29 when Mary was struck on the head by a wooden plank "under very peculiar circumstances." As she lay half stunned, Boehme gave her an injection. Next day, at Tacoma's St. Joseph Hospital, where Mary was admitted in critical condition, Dr. Stanley Durkin was puzzled by her symptoms. Miraculously, Mary rallied, and by 7:30 that night was in such good condition...
...Enough." The commission eschewed "czarlike powers" for the proposed Hudson authority, would indeed give it little more than the power of persuasion. Some conservationists contended that this might not be sufficient for an eleventh-hour rescue mission. Democratic Representative Richard Ottinger, who was elected on a plank of restoring the Hudson Valley, said that "with respect to the ambitions of certain special-interest groups, this is not enough." It was at least a hopeful beginning...
Every incoming President of the Philippines has taken office with a vow to clean up the corruption that plagues the nation, and the country's new leader is no exception. In fact, Ferdinand Marcos' main campaign plank was a promise to weed out crooked officials and halt the illicit traffic in whisky, cigarettes and luxury goods that cheats the national treasury of an annual $125 million in import duties. It is a huge task, but Marcos has got off to an impressively early start...