Word: gettysburg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside the Cumberland Township polling place north of Gettysburg a damp snow fell; in the small frame building a potbelly stove glowed comfortably as a dozen early risers politely stepped back to allow their famed neighbor the first primary vote. Dwight Eisenhower grinned a good morning, accepted his ballot from Clerk Herbert Raab, ducked into the farthest of five bunting-draped booths and took 60 seconds to mark his choices for "President of the United States" and 14 other offices. He reappeared to slip the folded paper into a ballot box, then drove off through the snow to Harrisburg...
...misfits complain about other people's houses having this or that, but the resouceful type knows otherwise--he can get along anyway. Take sex, for instance. Adams House, of course. A beehive with trapdoors. The Gettysburg of the war of the sexes. The Casbah. Well, if you can't dress your girl in khakis and a raincoat, or climb out a street floor window, then you don't deserve even the concessions we've been able to get for you (necking from four until seven on weekdays, until eight on Friday and Sundays, and until eleven on Saturday, except when...
...think that we the people are entitled to know from the Republican Party before the election just who will run the Government-and where the capital will be situated-Maryland, Georgia, Palm Springs, Denver, Gettysburg, Washington, D.C., or the U.S. Naval Hospital in Bethesda...
...boss." Added Stevenson, sarcastically: "It is curious that all anyone ever says about the owner is that he ought to be re-elected President of the U.S." The real reason Eisenhower is running again, said Stevenson, is that "he can't afford to retire to the farm at Gettysburg while Benson is Secretary of Agriculture...
Next came an attack on Ike, the most outspoken Stevenson has made during his pre-convention tours. Said Adlai: "We hear the President declare he hasn't read what his Secretary of State says . . . And from Washington, Gettysburg and Southern plantations we hear the President expressing renewed confidence in his team. To put it politely, I must say that the head coach seems to have missed some plays and not to be too sure of the score...