Word: platformed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Standing on a platform alongside the 13th century cathedral of Bourges, the towering, droop-shouldered figure called out the single word, "Algeria!" Then he paused and peered down at the hundreds gathered in the square before him. The crowd had come to cheer Charles de Gaulle's progress on his automobile pilgrimage to Orléans to celebrate the 530th anniversary of the liberation of that city from the English by Joan...
...heard, and the one opponent to Liberia's President William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman, 63, had his own typically Liberian reason for bothering to run at all. "Not being particularly opposed to the continuation in office, of President Tubman," a church organist had said in his formal platform, "this venture of mine is divinely inspired. It is purely sportsmanlike, and is in response to the ardent desire of Dr. Tubman for fair and friendly competition...
...hardest-working performers in show business are to be found neither in Hollywood nor on TV screens but on the creamed-chicken circuit. The nation's 22,000 women's clubs spend about $10 million a year in fees for top-name lecturers, traveloguers and other platform Poloniuses. After the cream of the chicken is ladled out, along come the hundreds of lesser performers who cannot get bookings through the major agencies. For them, job opportunities are offered on Thursday mornings in an ancient littb hall at Chicago's Art Institute. There the presidents and program chairmen...
Murphy based this attack on the Governor's recent appointment of several Republicans to high state positions. Claiming the appointment policy would "demoralize the party" and prevent the implementation of Democratic platform promises, Murphy called on Furcolo to reverse his policy...
...disarming unfamiliarity with English made him turn occasionally to an interpreter, and once he even drew help from a member of the audience. Dean Bundy, who introduced the speaker on behalf of the Law School forum and the University, seemed rather out of place as he shared the elevated platform with the Latin revolutionary and his bearded attendants...