Word: platformed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took most advantage of the offer was Néfissa Sid Cara, a schoolmarm who is the sister of a well-known pro-French Moslem politician. Running for the French National Assembly, she allowed no men to attend her meetings, and she had but one plank to her platform. "We want French law," one weeping woman told her. "My husband left me." "My husband took away my sons," said a veiled woman. "You must give them back to me." Néfissa's answer to those who clutched at her arms and clothing: "Vote for me, and I will...
Repeating his attack on Gov. Foster Furcolo's sales tax proposal, Lt. Gov. Robert F. Murphy told the Young Democratic Club last night that "a party which does not carry out its platform promises deserves the contempt of the electorate...
Needed: New Maps. Broad-shouldered and handsome, Sékou Touré is as dynamic a platform performer as any in all Black Africa. He is the idol of his 2,500,000 people, and the shadow he casts over Africa stretches far beyond the borders of his Oregon-sized country. As the head of the only French territory to vote against De Gaulle's constitution and thus to choose complete independence, he has been suddenly catapulted into the forefront of the African scene. Last week somnolent, picturesque Conakry was getting to know how it feels...
...scheme of a local real estate operator to put apartments or even factories on a platform over the Charles River basin seemed like a joke last year--at least like small enough a threat so that the City Council felt safe in voting its approval of the project...
...last year's bad joke has become enough of a threat to arouse widespread concern and organized opposition. The proprietor of the scheme claims that whether the platform is used for industry or apartments it will considerably strengthen the city's tax base by, in effect, adding taxable land to the map of Cambridge. At the same time the artificial peninsula would enliven the city's skyline, he says...