Word: planked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Court decisions have complicated a controversy that last spring centered on the minority plank in the constitution. As a result of the Bakke case, the Supreme Court this summer ordered a North Carolina appeals court to reconsider a decision banning the use of such minority planks...
...Bakke decision has complicated a controversy that last spring centered on the minority plank in the constitution. As a result of the Bakke case, the Supreme Court this summer ordered a North Carolina appeals court to reconsider a decision banning the use of such minority planks. The minority plank, which allots one seat in the Student Assembly for a representative from each of five Harvard minority organizations, evoked an unexpected amount of controvery last spring...
...booty includes everything from cargoes of fish to duty-free goods being trafficked in a centuries-old barter trade between East Malaysia and the Philippine island of Mindanao. "The greed of the pirates is unbelievable," says a Malaysian official. One ruthless pirate tradition of yore prevails: walking the plank. Of 500 victims attacked by buccaneers off the southern Thai provinces of Trat and Chantaburi last year, more than 300 drowned...
Harvard swabbed in a regular season match at The Country Club, but the Crimson quintet walked the plank on Thursday, with dismal rounds of 82, 82, 86, 92 and 92, which took them out of contention despite a better showing on Friday. Dartmouth finished second with a team total of 654 strokes, followed by Holy Cross, URI and UMass...
That was nothing compared to the fire he kindled as a delegate to the 1948 Democratic National Convention. He became an overnight liberal celebrity when he made a public demand for a strong civil rights plank in the party platform. "The time has arrived," he told the convention, "for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadow of states' rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights." The plank was adopted, provoking the creation of the Dixiecrat Party, which threatened to cut deeply into the Democrats' normally heavy Southern vote. Defeat seemed assured...