Word: planking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than 100,000 votes. That blizzard was not directly caused by the fact that during the campaign Mr. McAdoo was called too conservative, too old (74), a former Klansman (untrue). The reason that Oldster McAdoo failed of renomination was-so far as hard-headed politicians could tell - principally one plank in his opponent's platform. Opponent Sheridan Downey, erstwhile No. 2 man in Upton Sinclair's EPIC movement, onetime attorney of Dr. Francis E. ("Plan") Townsend, won the Democratic nomination to the Senate because he made a golden promise...
...Caraway, who started her political career as a protégée of Louisiana's Huey Long, was attacked by her Senatorial opponent, Representative John L. ("No Rubber Stamp") McClellan, for furthering it by becoming a yeswoman for Franklin Roosevelt. Placid Widow Caraway's chief campaign plank was that Arkansas is distinguished as the only State to have a woman in the Senate. Arkansas distinguished itself by nominating (i.e., electing) Democrat Caraway again...
...once in the kitchen, ready to operate, "Pop" was content. While the instruments boiled, he tried to josh the patient into feeling as confident as he did, sometimes had them offering to sharpen his tools. When one kitchen was too small, he set up his plank-&-barrel operating table under an apple tree. But despite these primitive conditions, says Hertzler, post-operative infections were not more frequent than in modern hospitals. The secret of successful operations, says Hertzler, is not a fancy operating room but thorough knowledge of anatomy and speed. In his own clinic, built with many a headache...
...Wilson Observatory in California is a seismological station so sensitive that trucks rumbling up the observatory road make tremors on the recording drums. Once a series of jiggles was traced to a child pounding a plank 400 yards away from the station. U. S. seismologists are not much disconcerted however. They have learned that it is easy to distinguish false jiggles because the record made by a real earthquake has a characteristic contour...
Although Führer Adolf Hitler's main plank is return of all German minorities to the Reich fold, his passiveness toward the South Tyroleans has contrasted with his agitation for the Sudeten Germans of Czechoslovakia. To South-Tyrolean Anschluss agitation the Führer has lately turned a cold shoulder, has declared Italy's present frontiers inviolable, has let the word be passed around that Ally Mussolini should not be embarrassed by Nazi agitation for a German Tyrol...