Word: planking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opposing Naziism and Socialism, but they fear a permanent Fascist dictatorship for a special reason. The Heimwehr is an aristocratic institution, backed by Austria's great landowners. Should Austria's incessant crises ever end the Agrarian League would make the rights of peasant landowners its chief plank...
...gape across a deep, narrow gorge at the buck deer with horns in velvet which, presumably chased by dogs and injured on the flank, had become marooned on a rocky ledge (TIME, Sept. 4 & 11). No end of elaborate wiles and artifices, including stuffed deer, an Indian chief, a plank bridge, were brought into play to lure the animal from its prison, all to no avail. Park employes feared that, if frightened, the buck might plunge over the brink and be destroyed, as its mate had been. Last week the buck's predicament, by now a national news story...
...before his first birthday. He now boldly coasts down inclines, steers around corners. Skating is not Johnny's sole athletic accomplishment. At seven and one-half months he began to practice swimming. Now he can dive and swim under water. Other abilities: climbing up a steeply inclined plank, climbing from a 5-ft. pedestal. Johnny's trainer from the instant he was born, when she began taking a long series of moving pictures of his every activity, has been Dr. Myrtle B. McGraw, the pretty, energetic assistant director of Babies Hospital's Normal Child Development Clinic, affiliated...
After a week the deer had grown accustomed to being gaped at, was eating the sweet corn and drinking the water lowered daily from the cliff, sleeping on a bale of hay. Hemlock branches and moss were strewn across the five-foot-wide plank bridge, a trail of salt sprinkled across it as a lure. Park officials were deluged with rescue suggestions. One man wanted to put an opiate in the deer's water. Another suggested a jacklight to lure the buck across the bridge at night. A farmer offered to bring a flock of sheep, place them reassuringly...
...warming, housewarming, sendoff, rouser, jamboree, waking-up, bellin', tin pan shower, callithumpian, callathumpin'. callathump and cowthump. The serenade includes such noisemakers as tin pans, kettles, washboilers, dinner bells, cowbells horns, gongs, drums, saws, tin cans, shotguns, "horse fiddles" (two rails gratin.tr together), "devil's fiddles" (a plank run through a box), "skonk" (conch) shells and corn-shellers filled with small stones The bride & groom are expected to listen patiently for a bit, then give the cothumpers plenty of cigars, applejack, gin whiskey or beer. If they do not, or if they are definitely disliked by the cowthumpers...