Word: hopeless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Douglas' chances looked as hopeless as Harry Truman's; Douglas himself had fought for Eisenhower instead of Truman before Philadelphia, convinced at the time that the President was "inept." But in the spring of 1948, Douglas hitched a loudspeaker to a jeep station wagon and started out across the state. Talking wherever a crowd would gather, beginning at factory gates at 7 a.m., stopping at every gas station and crossroads café, winding up again at another factory for the midnight shift, he covered 40,000 miles, made more than 1,100 speeches in six months...