Word: potterer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some men of tested high caliber, notably, Kentucky's scholarly John Sherman Cooper, who unseated Senator Thomas Underwood. Still others among the seven show promise, e.g., Arizona's Barry Goldwater, a department-store operator who ousted grey, quiet Majority Leader Ernest McFarland, and Michigan Representative Charles E. Potter, who unseated Senator Blair Moody. In some states, the Eisenhower landslide failed to pull in strong Republican candidates. In New Mexico, Ike almost tugged Pat Hurley (Secretary of War under Herbert Hoover) across the line, but Hurley finally lost to Senator Dennis Chavez in a race so close that...
...Michigan, Republican Representative Charles E. Potter, a legless World War II veteran, was ahead of Democratic Senator Blair Moody, ex-newsman who was making his first political race...
...Sean O'Faolain, "but so far they have not produced a play without the stamp of the workshop on it." The same can be said of O'Casey's autobiography. Most of its long and lyrical passages of proletarian praise are marked chiefly by what Stephen Potter might call prosemanship. Here & there are real gems of observation and poetic imagination. But when O'Casey declares that he would like 1,000 years of life "to encircle [the peoples of the world] with his arms like a girdle encircling the waist of a motherly woman," the reader...
...MICHIGAN, Representative Charles E. Potter, a legless World War II veteran, is leading Senator Blair Moody...
Smail, when reached for a comment on Potter's treatment of "Harvardmanship" said: "If you quote me, I'll sue you for libel...