Word: planked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Charles was taken blindfolded to a prison in Hanoi, installed in a room about 15 by 15 ft., furnished with two desks and a wooden plank bed with a boarded-up window. There he was to spend the first 36 days in solitary confinement. He was immediately issued personal supplies-a cup, toothpaste, tooth brush, shirts, trousers, blankets, a teapot. The food was opulent enough by P.O.W. standards-sweet milk and half a loaf of bread in the morning, thick potato or cabbage soup for lunch, along with soybean cakes, or fish cakes, and sometimes a ration of pork. Later...
...walked down the gang-plank carrying a night-bag in one hand and a stack of legal pads on a clipboard cradled in her other arm. Earlier that August morning she had been sitting in her mother's kitchen in Birmingham, Alabama. Within 48 hours, she would be asleep in Moscow, perhaps dreaming of airports or roses. Inside the Atlanta terminal Hosea Williams pointed out the window at the deboarded passengers. "It's her," he said...
Friedan charged that the McGovern headquarters used "extreme intimidation" to change 200 votes against the abortion plank written by women delegates...
...eyes of Republican women," says Kitty Clyde, a comely press aide to Anne Armstrong. De-radicalize? A phrase is born. A Roman Catholic mother of five with the clear-eyed look of a swimming instructor at a fashionable girls' camp, Jill made a determined plea for an abortion plank. It had no more chance with the Republicans than it did with the Democrats. But the plea's the thing. "You can't be abrasive and hostile in a convention like this," says Jill. "We had to come softly through the door to get women moving...
...main mover was Congresswoman Peggy Heckler of Massachusetts, a peppery redhead who likes to talk and talk. And people listen. She was determined to include in the G.O.P. platform a plank on federally sponsored day-care centers for children, thereby challenging her own President, who had vetoed a child-care bill because, he felt, it would weaken the family. Refusing to take no for an answer, Peggy had a way of converting it to yes. "Language is a barrier," she says. "Words do not mean the same to men as to women." So she held a class...