Word: boose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Women and overalled children fringed the parade route, skittering along the sidewalks behind the posted American Legionnaires, who wore their monkey-caps and their one hour's importance solemnly. From the sidewalks came an occasional "hurray!" From the factories, from the men of Pontiac, came boos, hisses.
How did we get there? . . .*Don't be misled by Boss Flynn. . . . If we go down this road, democracy will disappear. . . . Please, please, listen to me. . . . Don't let them lead you like cattle to the shambles. . . . Boos don't hurt me. ... All I ask is a...
Over the Manchester and Point Bridges -where the Allegheny, Monongahela, Ohio Rivers join-the parade whisked on for a 53-mile, 12-stop trek up the Monongahela, on the way to Steel. Past burning blast furnaces, past stacks belching columns of black, profitable smoke, along the river with its flat...
On his way to Philadelphia, Willkie addressed 25,000 people before the Capitol at Harrisburg, made back-platform talks at Lancaster and Coatesville-where an egg hit the rear platform, a stick, and occasional boos, were flung at the rear car.
Even such professional cynics as newsmen knew that no mere love of office or appetite for acclaim could drive a man to the punishment Willkie was taking daily -not the boos, but the grinding strain of the campaign. "A punch-drunk prophet," said one newshawk.