Word: elemental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advisers attribute the large vote which he received in Philadelphia, in contrast to his weak vote in other cities, to the efforts of a vigorous new Democratic organization there. They do not attribute it to the fact that there are fewer Catholics (to your way of thinking apparently the element most likely to support McCarthyism) in Philadelphia than in cities like Boston...
...start, few of his big, set speeches were ever as effective as his short whistle-stop talks. Here Ike was in his element: half the town gathered at the depot, high-school bands playing John Philip Sousa, the kids excused from school excitedly scrambling over freight cars and station buildings for a better look. These talks were far from polished; Ike's grammar could be hair-raising. The correspondents on his campaign train gleefully kept score of his cliches; but Eisenhower somehow can get away with cliches. When he says "I love this land...
...district judge machine, and the silence will become general. We will back down and let the Speed Graphic and the electronic computer move in to eliminate our mistakes. When that time comes they might as well close the college and put the students on learning dictation, for the sporting element, the element of mischance, the umpire element, will have disappeared. In its place will sit the unblinking machine, confident, proficient, and always right...
Although the element of luck figured largely in the game, a recapitulation shows that the breaks were just about even. The Crimson's good fortune was just better timed...
...concluded with the opinion that "McCarthyism is the evil element in this election, and it is not going to be confined to Wisconsin...