Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coffins on the big platform and I started to really concentrate. I tried to think about what this whole procedure had meant. We were told to rip the cards from the string around our necks. So I carried this card in my hand and stared at the coffin where I was to dispose of Tinsley Bryant...
HICKS, however, is another story. She comes across as a simple housewife with an "I'm one of you" image. Her platform is simple, and perhaps, oversimplified. Hicks openly stated during her campaign that Roxbury's racial trouble was caused by outsiders, and insisted: "The people of Roxbury have been living in harmony with the rest of the city for years." This philosophy reassured an electorate that was looking outside the city for answers to its internal problems. With matronly pollworkers suggesting, "Don't forget Louise," she devastated the field...
Nixon clearly enjoyed the partisan outing. His arms held aloft to acknowledge applause, his brisk rhetoric-even many of the lines-were part of last year's familiar campaign platform performances. Only one thing had changed: Nixon omitted the two-fingered V-sign with which he had once signaled victory. That has been appropriated by the petitioners for peace in Viet...
...Chinese selling vegetables, white matrons walking with their arms full of laundry, families of tourists admiring the shops and looking for a Chinese restaurant. People smile, stop and talk on the street; it is predictably peaceful. But in Portsmouth Square, 200 people mill around a rostrum. On the platform are an army bugler, a line of speakers and a big sign that says...
...rent control issue has, however, produced several splinter candidates who are running on a platform of rent control for Cambridge. Most are felt to have little chance of election...