Word: politicking
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...happier times campaigning had been a pleasure keener than stamp collecting. But last week there was a difference. Some things had changed. To politick is to try to win. And Franklin Roosevelt had said, in all but words, that he was trying to win a position not yet official, but certainly more real every day: Presidency of the Western Hemisphere. A month ago it had looked like a Roosevelt landslide, last week it no longer looked that...