Word: adlai
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Until this year, politicians have rotated about these two poles like so many wooden horses on a carousel. That is why Adlai Stevenson is so refreshing an addition to national politics...
...your issue of Sept. 22, I read with pleasure that Lauren Bacall has switched from Ike to Adlai and that she is working on Bogie...
Over & over again the story was repeated at the whistle stops: a popular turnout that defied comparison-even for memories that stretched all the way back to William Jennings Bryan. Democratic Baltimore, which had just barely mustered a welcome for Adlai Stevenson earlier in the week, turned out 100,000 strong to line the streets for Eisenhower. After dinner at the Lord Baltimore Hotel, Ike drove through more crowds to the packed Fifth Regiment Armory to deliver a speech on armed forces policy. Considering how much Eisenhower knows about this subject, the speech was disappointing to his friends-although...
...Dollars and guns," he said, "are no substitute for brains and will power." He made a thinly veiled attack on President Truman and Democratic Candidate Adlai Stevenson: "It is not hard to find men long on courage and short on brains. But this is no time for boldness without reflection and purpose. It is not hard to find men of fine intellect and faint heart. But this is no time for men of refined and elaborate indecision. The American people," he went on, "have been condemned [by Administration foreign policy] to live in a purgatory of improvisation...
...Louisville, Adlai Stevenson's campaign took on a new tone. In bitter terms, the usually restrained Stevenson expressed his growing anger at the opponent he had once admired...