Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...afternoon Congressional from Washington bumped to a halt in a gloomy cavern beneath Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station one evening last week. Amid the crowd that surged out onto the platform, indistinguishable from his fellow passengers except for an extra bit of height (6 ft. 1 in.) and an extra gleam in his eye, walked a middle-aged man with a battered suitcase in his hand and his coat collar turned up against the wintry drafts. As he made his way through the station to the snow-blanketed street to hail himself a taxi, nobody recognized...
...turned out dozens of articles and seven books on foreign affairs and economics, all of them vibrating with the liberal tones of the big-government planner and spender. With Kennedy's blessing he was chief author of the eloquent thousand and one Utopian promises in the Democratic platform in Los Angeles. He also served as a somewhat neglected Kennedy foreign policy adviser in the campaign...
...subs can yet match the U.S. Polaris missile subs' ability to fire from a submerged position, and the missiles they carry are presumed to be only short-range (300 miles) land-type types installed on regular subs whose conning towers were enlarged to make a firing platform for them. But the Russians are undoubtedly working on Polaris-like missiles, Blackman warned, and "it would be unwise to assume, especially in view of Soviet success in astral rocketry, that the U.S.S.R. is any less capable than other nations in the field of hydrodynamic rocketry...
There could be found no poignant example of contemporary youth's prematurely cynical attitude toward the fallings of its elders than the organization recently founded at Princeton. Calling itself the Veterans of Future Wars, the group advances as the chief plank of its platform the immediate payment of a bonus to all males who will be killed in the next war. A similar movement at Vassar, The Gold Star Mothers of the Veterans of Future Wars, declares that it intends to send delegates to view the future burying ground of the future dead...
Labor's decline began shortly after the 1957 general elections. Campaigning on a platform of reduced taxes and tax rebates, the party slipped back into power with a paper-thin two-vote majority in New Zealand's 80-seat, one-chamber Parliament. But within months Labor Prime Minister Walter Nash, now 78, announced that a balance-of-payments financial crisis had forced his government to renege on its campaign promises. To pay its bills, the government slapped new taxes on beer, tobacco and petrol, which more than canceled the tax rebates. Above all, New Zealand's voters...