Word: planking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon Hauser joined the Tat-Kreis (Action Group), haven of "the young generation of the German Right." Its main plank: "That democracy had proved a failure and would never be anything but a failure in Germany." Today, twelve years after Hitler's rise to power, Author Hauser's views are still the same. In the new Germany to which he is returning he does not expect to find much more freedom of expression than existed in Nazi Germany. But he believes that the new Germany will be preferable to the U.S. His reasons...
...sprawling, creeping Chinese front is inching forward in the wake of the Japanese retreat much as a boy tiptoes through a haunted house, testing each plank as he treads. Behind this front, held by old tatterdemalion outfits, new armies and new weapons are being tooled to the future strategic pattern of the war in Asia. They are not yet in action and will not be for some time to come. In these months of grace it is the old army that is retracing the course of its great retreat last year, advancing in the same way it fled-tired, hungry...
...starlit Philippine sky covered the roofless ruins of old Santa Cruz church. Viennese-born Conductor Herbert Zipper stepped onto the plank podium-and the Manila Symphony Society's first concert since December 1941 had begun...
...their "proper" place, i.e., Jews to Palestine, Pennsylvania Germans back to das Vaterland, Negroes to Africa, etc. He could start this United Hates of America Organization to welcome even those personal grudgers who dislike children, their neighbors, dogs and pets belonging to neighbors, and make his No. 1 plank the abolition of the words "brotherly love...
...dawn the German tanks began to move up. The doughboys across the canal began to yell for the bridge and for tanks. The engineers, now raked by a murderous spray of German machine-gun fire, coolly and swiftly worked on. Just as the German tanks struck, the last plank fell into place and U.S. tanks rolled across the bridge. They saved the bridgehead and opened the road to Cologne...