Word: planking
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Duval went on to explain that he was the father of six children, made 3,500 francs ($10) a week-scarcely enough to buy food for his family for three days. "If there is a straw mattress in the U.S.S.R., it is a plank in France," he continued. "I tell my children that the employers and the government are nothing but bandits . . . Hate, hate, hate, that is what I teach my children . . . Farewell, gentlemen, eat well, a day will come soon, for we have nothing to lose...
...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...