Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Coattails. Political coattails were next to worthless. Adlai Stevenson had depended on strong Democratic state tickets to help him win; only in Missouri, where the Democratic ticket was led by able Senator Tom Hennings. did "Operation Reverse Coattails" succeed. Oregon's Republican Douglas McKay chatted endlessly at the corner gas station or general store about his service as Eisenhower's Secretary of the Interior. But Oregonians were interested in issues, e.g., public power, declining lumber prices, and they re-elected the man who discussed those issues: professorial Democratic Senator Wrayne Morse (who was also pretty good...
...wealthy and articulate, but Clark is far ahead of Stevenson in his ability to get his ideas across to the plain citizen. (And, unlike Stevenson, quipped a Pittsburgh newsman, his name is Joe.) When Clark ran for mayor of Philadelphia five years ago, he made dozens of street-corner speeches, waved a broom over his head to dramatize the clean sweep he intended to make (and did) at graft-ridden city hall. Against Duff, he demonstrated the same ability to pound home simple, telling points. His most effective charge: Duff's frequent absences from the Senate left Pennsylvania with...
...when the doors lock, the Cliffe-dweller must register in the sign-book for all to see. Unlike some women's colleges, at Radcliffe a girl does not have to sign the name of her date, but only her destination, with as little specificity as "Boston movies," "Square," or "Corner...
...Diane. Yet at 2:30 a.m. he was winging southward for some unprecedented Election Day campaigning in Miami. "It's absolutely insane," said an aide, "but he just can't stop." Estes started talking to mechanics in an airport hangar, kept it up from supermarket to street corner for 4½-hours. Then, with a quick stop to vote at the Lookout Mountain schoolhouse above Chattanooga, he flew back to Washington...
...Illinois' Republican Governor Billy Stratton, carrying the deadly weight of the embezzlement scandal in the state auditor's office, got boxed into a corner throughout most of the hours of vote-counting, barely brushed through on late downstate returns to win over Chicago Judge Richard Austin...