Word: fustest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Massachusetts' youthful Jack Kennedy, still the fustest-and fastest-running Democrat, busied himself flushing delegates' votes in the canebrakes of Louisiana, went north to work his way through Wisconsin and Illinois, and headed toward heavy speaking dates in California two weeks hence. Missouri's Stuart Symington was marching through Georgia, booked solidly ahead for shooting matches from Massachusetts to Florida over the next weeks. Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey scored an unexpected bull's-eye with the United Auto Workers in Atlantic City, pushed on to Denver. In Dallas, House Speaker Sam Rayburn, who customarily presides...
...develop underdeveloped nations is one field where the U.S. got there fustest and with the mostest. Example: An increasing number of Indian students have been invited to visit Russia, but none has stayed to study. Fifteen thousand Indian students are now studying...
Years after Appomattox. a simple, honest and superlatively skillful horse soldier, General Nathan Bedford ("Get thar fustest") Forrest, attended a meeting of Confederate veterans. He listened to typical Southern oratory (Calhoun's principles and Scott's language) on the Lost Cause. Hardly a word was said about slavery. Forrest, ill at ease amid hypocrisy, rose to say that if he hadn't thought he was fighting to keep his niggers, and other folks' niggers, he never would have gone to war in the first place. Forrest was interested in Sambo, not Ivanhoe. The sentiment...
...Fustest & Mostest. But MacConnell and his students did not stop with recommendations: in some towns they undertook to persuade citizens to vote for school bond issues. They arranged radio interviews, hired airplanes, snapped aerial pictures of likely school sites. In Campbell, they persuaded local merchants to plump for a school bond issue in special...
...come in from a town in Utah and another in Montana. MacConnell was looking forward to sending his first teams outside the state. "We're sure other universities will take up our idea if we don't move fast," says he. "We want to get there fustest with the mostest...