Word: quipping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Making the rounds of eight regional party pep gatherings from Santa Fe to Hartford, the Stevenson smile, quip and zip were at their captivating best (said Campaign Manager Jim Finnegan: the meetings were "little short of sensational"). At Manhattan's Ambassador Hotel, where 250 of the best-heeled Democrats turned out to pledge $350,000 to the fund, the candidate was in fine fettle ("I'm delighted to see a group so distinguished-and so solvent"). In Harrisburg, Pa. he laced his arms around the waists of a couple of "farmerette" Stevenson supporters, joshed away as photographers popped...
...play very good," fans would quip, "but he has a lousy tone." In today's overcrowded jungle, one young musician is beginning to emerge because he is lousy with versatility...
Striding buoyantly along San Francisco's Eddy Street on a corner-to-corner, hand-kneading, quip-crackling campaign tour, Candidate Adlai Stevenson passed the California College of Chiropody and laughed at the yell from students: "Hi Adlai, how's your feet?" Shouted Stevenson: "I'm going to come over there and lay down." A member of Stevenson's entourage murmured: "That's the first time I ever heard you make a grammatical error." Grinned Stevenson, whose Ivy League diction has been counted a political debit by his advisers: "I've got orders to make...
...leading candidates for the Democratic nomination paused in mid-campaign last week, drew solemn breath, and issued full-dress declarations on U.S. foreign policy. Adlai Stevenson, avoiding the quip, charged that the U.S. has "come dangerously close to losing, if indeed it has not lost, its leadership in the world." Estes Kefauver, avoiding the homily, charged that the Eisenhower Administration "has no faith in peace and no hope of achieving it in its time." Both men offered to correct the situation...
...tune of Stephen Foster's Old Black Joe). Bulganin stood up smiling and raising his arms like a boxer acknowledging applause, signed autographs and patted student cheeks. In New College quadrangle, students set off a huge firecracker which made B. & K. jump, led Bulganin to quip: "Are they making an atomic bomb...