Word: pipestem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other candidates in the July 24 Democratic primary. His most formidable opponent was 60-year-old ex-Governor Coke ("Calculatin' Coke") Stevenson, a conservative states-rights man. Coke's supporters offered to put him into a plane, too, but Coke replied, after a hard bite on his pipestem: "No, thanks. I'll keep my campaign down to earth...
That was last spring; now eleven-year-old Gerard has found a home-in Trogen, Switzerland. His face is freshly scrubbed, his pipestem legs are filling out on milk, fresh vegetables and meat. Gerard is one of the lucky first 29 citizens of Pestalozzi Children's Village.* By next year, the village will house 380 orphans from foreign countries...