Word: planked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have to play "something that could be either a subdued Wedding March or a spirited Funeral Dirge." Rosenwald even makes Grusha's flight on a rotting bridge spanning a 2000-foot abyss convincing, with a little help from Susanne Boyce, who did the props: the bridge is just a plank between two bundles of hay, but it works. So do the conceivably awkward fadeouts between the play's brief scenes, which are linked by the resonant narration of John Philips as the singer...
...article, entitled "Ivy League Clubs: Has Skull and Bones Walked the Plank?", appeared in the August issue of the magazine, a monthly publication of the Hearst Corp...
...dock worker and lumberjack he champions strong Colorado law controlling land use (a weak measure failed to pass Colorado legislature this year). Plans to use issue as his major plank in campaign for governorship...
Potentially even more embarrassing for the President is the probability that Congress will not honor his request to grant Moscow most-favored-nation status-a key plank in the Soviet-American trade treaty signed last October...
...military airbase well outside the city because the runway at Hanoi's Gia Lam airport is too short. The area surrounding Hanoi's airfield is leveled, and many bridges are still out. The 30-minute motorcade of curtained black Russian sedans had to cross a plank-covered steel pontoon bridge over the Red River to enter Hanoi...