Word: adlai
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...1950s, for example, Lieberman passed out leaflets for Democratic presidential candidate and Illinois Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson...
...puts it, and thus tends to make less news and to offer a somewhat less glittering roster of guests. But whoever his guests may be, King unashamedly plugs their books, records, movies, plays, whatever, as if they were his very own. Although he is a Democrat and self-described "Adlai Stevenson liberal," he stays reasonably apolitical on the air. "If I were to interview President Bush about his alleged affair," he says, "I wouldn't ask if he'd had one. I'd ask him, 'How does it feel to read these things about yourself...
...Adlai Stevenson was appalled. "This isn't Ivory soap vs. Palmolive," he said. "I think the American people will be shocked by such contempt for their intelligence." With four years to rethink, Stevenson got the message. In a technique repeated subsequently whenever the "outs" face an incumbent, Stevenson in 1956 recounted Ike's unfulfilled 1952 promises. "How's that again, General?" Stevenson intoned endlessly, adding, "Yes, it's time for a change...
...presidential election, network officials thought it a nifty publicity stunt. But when the printout appeared, an embarrassed Charles Collingwood reported that the machine couldn't make up its mind. It was not until after midnight that CBS confessed the truth: Univac had correctly predicted Dwight Eisenhower would swamp Adlai Stevenson in one of the biggest landslides in history, but nobody believed it. It is a defining moment in THE MACHINE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD, a surprisingly satisfying five-part history of the computer that starts April 6 on PBS. Crafted from old footage and fresh reportage by a team...
...somewhat oafish exterior. But when he scorns the American "foreign policy elite" for sniffing at Yeltsin because the Russian might not know which fork to use at a state banquet, he is rather obviously settling some old personal scores, and when he calls Mikhail Gorbachev "a Soviet version of Adlai Stevenson," he does not mean it as a compliment...