Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...constitution, and it will be several days before all the winners are known. But in any case, there were, as Saigon analysts noted, no George Washingtons or Magsaysays among them. They were not running for a legislature. They represented no political parties. They stood on no platform other than their own appeal-and their desire, in the face of assassination threats by the Viet Cong, to shape a constitution that will prepare the way for civilian rule in Viet...
Mountain climbers have scaled its sides, acrobats have walked up on their hands, stunt pilots have flown between its legs, and an adventurous baker once teetered all the way up the 363 steps to the first platform on a pair of stilts. Even more spectacularly the descent has been at tempted by bicycle, parachute and, in 1911, by a tailor who rigged himself out in a batwing cape and jumped off to see if he could fly (he couldn...
...speaker was Thailand's Premier Thanom Kittikachorn, and the occasion was proof of the conviction of his words. As Buddhist monks chanted blessings, the Thai leader stood on a wooden platform overlooking the Gulf of Siam and watched balloons lift a banner from a large stone embedded in the ground. On the stone was the inscription: "U-Tapao Airfield, dedicated to the furtherance of peace through strength and friendship...
...support most campaign expenses, Galbraith urges providing "every regularly nominated candidate with a public grant of sufficient size to enable him to get his name, merit, if any, and platform before the people...
Chile's President Eduardo Frei is a Christian Democrat who came to office on a platform of sweeping social reform. He has turned out to be a reformer, all right, but of a kind that Chilenos had not quite expected. Seven months ago, he put a crimp in the national afternoon siesta by banning the three-hour lunch break. Then came a prohibition of movies after midnight and the closing of television stations at 11:45 p.m. "A nation that goes to bed late cannot work well the next day," the government explained...