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Word: harassin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1956-1956
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...almost that same time, Harold Stassen was throwing in the towel on his dump-Nixon fight. Throughout the week, the haggardly smiling Stassen had endured small indignities: he was booed in the Fairmont Hotel; delegates flaunted insulting buttons saying. "stASSen" and "Stassen Stop Harassin'." Stassen could have taken all that if he had been making headway. But even he perceived that he had underestimated Dick Nixon's strength in the Republican Party. At the eleventh hour on Wednesday he went to Eisenhower, said he was giving up, asked permission to second Nixon's nomination that afternoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE-PRESIDENCY: Unanimous Choice | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

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