Word: planking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their paces, and introduce a bunch of Pueblo, Indian dancers from New Mexico. Champion, a handsome animal, dances to the Army Air Corps song, "La Cucaracha," and "The Blue Danube" and bounds through a couple of hoops; Little Champion also makes with the hoops and walks along a narrow plank suspended a foot off the ground...
...wall of Chicago Stock Exchange President James Day's office hangs a two-inch perch mounted on a tarpon-sized plank, the gift of friends lampooning a luckless fishing trip. But last week ardent Fisherman Day landed a tarpon of sorts. After three years of angling, he hooked it with representatives of the Cleveland, St. Louis and Minneapolis-St. Paul Stock Exchanges. They agreed to merge their exchanges into one big Midwest Stock Exchange, which will be exceeded in size only by the New York Stock Exchange and the Curb Exchange...
...Many people are under the impression that just any man can plank down his money and become a Mason. Well, it's not true . . . Many famous and prominent men have tried many times to join a Masonic Lodge, but have failed . . . We never go out and solicit members, either...
...their first free general election since Adolf Hitler seized power in 1933, Germans will choose 400 representatives for the Bundestag (lower house) of the Deutsche Bundesrepublik, the long-awaited Federal Republic of Germany. Chief contestants for power: the Christian Democrats and the Socialists. Their platforms had one vital plank in common: sharp criticism of the Western occupation powers...
...Danube. The First became proudly known as the "Rhine & Danube" Army. He crossed the Rhone on D-day plus 15, when the crossing was actually planned for sometime between D plus 30 and D plus 60. His sappers and bridging equipment had not arrived, but he commandeered every boat, plank and carpenter for miles around, and put 10,000 men and 3,000 trucks across the river in 48 hours. He repeated this tour de force when he crossed the Rhine...