Word: barnstorms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leader of the heavily favored Alliance Party, Tengku (Prince) Abdul Rahman, 56, quit his job as Prime Minister four months ago to barnstorm throughout all eleven states of the federation by motorboat and car. Cambridge-educated and a descendant of ancient Mongol conquerors of Malaya, he plumped for more education and economic development, said, "I was truly astounded by the ignorance in some places." Before upcountry pagodas and in front of east coast mosques, he greeted crowds by crying Merdeka (freedom) and arguing commonsensically that "there is too much talk about differences of race, religion and class rather than about...
...stating that the footballeurs refused any longer to help French sport "at the moment when France makes merciless war on their country. They have placed the independence of Algeria above all, giving Algerian youth proof of their courage and disinterestedness." A "Free Algerian" team would now be formed to barnstorm through the Middle East, said F.L.N...
...face: the rise ball. Sailing up from a few inches off the dirt, the rise ball can be made to break either way across the strike zone. The best batters are prone to pop it up for an easy putout. Good softball pitchers have been known to barnstorm the country and win most of their games with only a catcher and two fielders to fill out their teams...
...with the U.S. Recto was once a big power in Magsaysay's own Nacionalista Party, but this year he was specifically eliminated from the party slate at Magsaysay's insistence. Senator Recto found a berth on the Liberal slate as a "guest candidate," and set off to barnstorm against his President, whom he called a "dictator" and a "U.S. puppet." Two nights before the election, in a speech at the Manila Harvard Club, he dramatically proclaimed that "Magsaysayism" was the Filipino counterpart of McCarthyism...
...accused Kefauver of befriending left-wing Northerners, supporting the Supreme Court segregation decision, and, worst of all, being an "internationalist." Unlike his 1948 coonskin-cap barnstorm ing, Kefauver's campaign was dignified; he soft-pedaled his internationalist and gang-busting lines, stressing what he had done for Tennessee. By campaign's end there was evidence that Pat Sutton had talked too much. During one talkathon, he had labeled a friend of Kefauver as a "known Communist." Later he apologized, but that did not stop Kefauver's friend from hitting him with a $1,500,000 slander suit...