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...ever called Gengras a plodder. He became a whiz salesman of bottled cooking gas in his teens, graduated to cars, and rapidly built a chain of automobile dealerships stretching from Rhode Island to Long Island. Then he expanded into public transit in his home state and insurance on an international scale. Along the way, Gengras presciently fathered eleven children, five of whom will be eligible to vote the G.O.P. ticket in November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Connecticut: In the Ring with Dempsey | 7/1/1966 | See Source »

When the Communists set out to rename the revamped London Daily Worker, British wags offered suggestions: London Pravda, the Daily Directive, the Red Queen, the Daily Pink, the Swinging Plodder, Hammer & Piffle. Not amused, the dour Communists last week brought out their new paper under the innocuous name Morning Star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Swinging Worker | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

...Harvard, it says, "pressures for academic achievement are rigorous," but the College is "likely to be extraordinarily gratifying to the scholar, the intellectual, the grind, the highly motivated plodder-to all but the traditional candidate seeking a leisurely gentleman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Classes Satisfy Plodders, New Guide Says | 11/23/1964 | See Source »

...Crain, the team captain, is definitely no slouch. The chunky senior, one of McCurdy's big three for the past two years, is a deceptive plodder with the creditable habit of finishing consistently near the front of the pack...

Author: By Philip Ardery, | Title: Runners Could Prove 'Best Yet' | 9/29/1964 | See Source »

Problems in Philly. In Philadelphia, Democrats were fearful that Mayor James Tate, a party plodder who inherited the office last year when Crusading Liberal Richardson Dilworth resigned to run unsuccessfully for Governor, would be in trouble with whites for his acquiescence to demands from a notably militant grouping of Negro organizations. As it turned out, Tate won-but by the thinnest edge the Democrats had sweated in twelve years of power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elections: Less Than a Bomb And More Than a Sparkler | 11/15/1963 | See Source »

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