Word: planked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...profundity palatable and insidiously convincing. It is frightening, describing a world that has run out of bicycles, sweet-plums, coffins, pain-killer, honor, time, and God. After a futile attempt at prayer, Hamm screams, "Bastard! He doesn't exist." It shows mankind, having walked to the edge of the plank, hesitate before the leap that threatens oblivion or promises a new beginning...
...fire] wasn't even a plank, they were trying to eliminate an odor," Scott said...
...their tools by 8 each morning and, except for an hour-long lunch break, do not put them away until after 4 each afternoon. No one complains about the hours. "I love it; it gives me such a sense of satisfaction," says Cullen. "When I fitted my first plank, I felt like singing the Marseillaise...
...conservative version, the party would "oppose any attempts to increase taxes, which would harm the recovery and reverse the trend to restoring control of the economy to individual Americans." Punctuated that way, the plank would hold all tax hikes to be harmful. If necessary, proclaimed Weber, "we'll take that comma to the floor-and I'm only half joking...
...with an item left over from the Democratic Convention, namely Mondale's bold assertion that any Chief Executive, including Reagan, will be forced to raise taxes in 1985. The issue was tricky for Reagan not only because of its volatility among the electorate but also because the tax plank is shaping up as one of the few sparring points between moderates and conservatives at the upcoming Republican Convention. Supply-side Congressmen, led by Jack Kemp, want the platform to pledge specifically that taxes will not be raised in a second Reagan Administration. G.O.R leaders in the Senate and even...