Word: planking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...prosperity of Western Europe and the poverty of Eastern Europe were all part of the same story, as no one knows better than Russia's new czar, Nikita Khrushchev, who made it a key plank of his new program that Russia must "catch up with America in the per capita production of milk, butter and meat in the next few years...
...York jury. In 1954, in a 50-minute playlet produced on CBS, he threw a harsh light on the dangers inherent in trial by jury. He sat a national audience in the jury box and let them find out for themselves what an abyss of conscience the plank of constitutional law is laid across, and how it feels in the pit of an honest juryman's stomach when he has to walk that plank...
...Houston, after a bar proprietress told him to stop swearing, Durwood Delmont Jenkins qualified for a two-year probation term when he began a loud recitation of the 23rd Psalm instead, was told that that was not appropriate either, grabbed an 8-ft. plank and smashed the bar window...
Hubert Humphrey is a club member along with such conservatives as Theodore Green and Harry Byrd. How did Humphrey get there? You will remember him for his floor fight at the 1948 Democratic convention (in defiance of agreements among party leaders) to get a firm civil rights plank in the platform. He has since learned to compromise. Lest you shudder (White feels that a Senator must "accommodate" to be effective), it should be noted that this compromise may have considerably speeded up the chances of some civil rights laws...
...years the chief Okinawan thorn in the U.S. side has been an emaciated little man with a jet-black mustache and eyes that glare from behind thick spectacles. He is Kamejiro Senaga, the 49-year-old chief of the Okinawa People's Party. The party's principal plank was opposition to U.S. requisitioning of land for military purposes, which over the years has resulted in the seizure of one-fifth of Okinawa's arable land and the dispossession of 50,000 Okinawans. In a low, mild voice, Senaga called the U.S. occupation authorities "criminals, murderers, rapists, arsonists...