Word: hardly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Running for re-election last year against a woman lawyer, Shoo-In Symington ran a lot harder than he needed to, racked up the most lopsided victory (66.4% of the votes) ever recorded in a Missouri senatorial election. His hard race seemed proof that the Symington-for-President boomlet in 1956, when Missouri's convention delegation voted for him as a favorite son, had set presidential ambitions astir...
...Voice in 100. Measured against his earlier careers as businessman and Government administrator, Symington's performance during his nearly seven years in the Senate has not been spectacular. He has wielded little influence, fathered no important legislation. He works hard, putting in upwards of twelve hours a day, but effort has not translated into results that can be labeled as his own. In the Senate world of committees and compromises, his executive talent and experience are wasted: his is only one voice out of 100, and there is nothing for him to decide except where he himself stands...
Executive Drive. By working hard at it, Symington has managed in recent months to improve his performance as a speechmaker. He still flops sometimes, but in New Castle last week, speaking without notes, he got himself across, livening his talk with touches of humor and personal history that rarely show up in his written speeches. Facing an audience sprinkled with steelworkers, he pointed to his days in the foundry: "I've poured my share of iron. I've stoked open hearths." Said a steelworker: "The guy's O.K. He's been in the mills. He knows...
...midst of his Air Force battles in 1947, hard-driving Secretary Symington had to undergo a major, nerve-severing operation for high blood pressure...
...Iowa's Democratic Governor Herschel Loveless, who has a vice-presidential gleam in his eye, made an unscheduled sortie across the Mississippi to Moline, Ill., for a testimonial dinner for Massachusetts, hard-running Senator Jack Kennedy. Asked if this meant an endorsement, Loveless smiled and replied: "You can say that rumor has it so." ¶ In Washington later, Senator Kennedy, having acknowledged privately that he might ultimately find himself Adlai Stevenson's vice-presidential candidate, let the word out that he entertains no vice-presidential ambitions for himself. ¶ Oregon's stormy Senator Wayne Morse, violent anti...