Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chairman of Barry Goldwater's campaign in California and one of Goldwater's most effective spokesmen in 1964. This year he heeded the advice of the political-management firm of Spencer-Roberts to bring his image closer to center. Without abandoning any conservative fundamentals-his platform embraces "fiscal responsibility" and rejects open-housing legislation -Reagan conveyed the impression of a responsible, vigorous crusader with all of the ardor and none of the abrasiveness of a Goldwater. His "Creative Society" slogan projects affirmation rather than negativism...
...protesting had began to sour. Earlier this year, Dietz said that the Coop should be kicked out of its nearly completed annex because it didn't have a temporary off-street loading dock for trucks. Then the Coop countered with photos of trucks unloading on a wooden platform next to the building. Then Dietz charged that the photos were staged and that the platform was normally blocked by construction machinery. Then the Coop displayed affidavits from truck drivers who said that they had used the dock. Then Dietz produced an affidavit from someone in his office who said that...
Thomas prevented any chance of uniting the two rallies when he refused to speak on the same platform with Quill, whom he accused of being "too close to Stalin." The rallies, although eventually held separately, attracted more than 1000 people...
...boys were perched in trees to get a better view, and teen-agers jammed the roof of the nearby African culture center. In the center of the square, cordoned off by police, stood a makeshift scaffold. A red circle had been painted in the middle of its collapsible wooden platform. A strong, rough rope hung down from the crossbar above. A row of open coffins, trimmed with gold and lined with white sheets, lay waiting on the ground below. Four enemies of Army Strongman Joseph Mobutu were about to be hanged, and to celebrate the occasion Mobutu had declared...
...hour is late and the world is sick," he told 19,000 spellbound opening-night listeners at the Earl's Court arena. "The world is moving toward a rendezvous with a frightful destiny." From the hydrangea-festooned platform, Billy denounced the radical "Death of God" theologians, and shouted: "I fear that sex has become our goddess-and has that one-eyed thing in our living room become our God?" Moved by the fist-pounding sermon, 450 people-a leonine blackbeard, a Negro youth, a golden blonde, hand-holding lovers-came forward to make "decisions for Christ" almost precisely...