Word: eggheaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heartily share your joy over the election results. It was made even more gratifying because of the failure of the egghead rebellion-especially those Hollywoodians who didn't have the fortitude to deny Communist affiliation...
Although the shape of my own cranium is regrettably average and inconspicuous, I object strongly to your repeated derogatory use of the term, egghead...
...pass the next test, in which the goal was 266 electoral votes. His campaign survived the Nixon crisis-stirred up partly out of hatred for the man who broke the Alger Hiss case-and turned an apparent setback into an advantage. It survived the egghead rebellion, the desertion of Ike by scores of intellectuals, journalists, Hollywoodians and other opinion makers...
...Egghead Vote. At first, crowds were small, far smaller than Eisenhower's, far smaller than Harry Truman drew in 1948. In his first attempt as a whistle-stopper he was a flop. He got better, by dint of practice, but his best performances were in set speeches, to big audiences...