Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Council of Catholic Women. In a bipartisan speech on world peace (see above), Ike made a bipartisan political aside. He said, with real feeling, that he joined in the prayers of Boston that Democratic Senator John Kennedy "be shortly restored to full health."† After the speech, the President rode through downtown Boston's Washington Street, was greeted by a storm of confetti and a huge, cheering crowd...
Returning to the state from Washington in mid-campaign, colorless, conscientious Guy Cordon, 64, discovered he was in a horse race, rode off to the hustings to deliver attacks on Republican-turned-Independent-Democrat Wayne Morse, his Senate colleague who backed Neuberger. Although Cordon's managers, unused to hard bush-beating, never got his campaign into full gallop, it seemed unlikely that a Republican would lose in Oregon...
...outside of his home York County had ever heard of until eight months ago. On top of that, the state house of representatives went Democratic 111 to 99, and the state senate returned a bare Republican majority (27-23). Never before-not even when fun-loving George H. Earle rode the tidal crest of the New Deal wave in 1934 -had Democrats come so close to making a clean sweep in Harrisburg...
...morning last week, the hollow-faced old aristocrat hobbled out of the prison on a cane, smiled briefly, and with his daughter at his side rode to freedom in a hired automobile. Nothing he owned at war's end fitted him now, and he wore corduroy trousers, a checked shirt, a green tie, and a cheap jacket, from which his jailers only the night before had removed the large numeral...
...newsmen were sometimes confused by the close vote, few at least were embarrassed by it. Unlike the 1948 elections, when most political reporters simply rode the campaign trains, this year hundreds of reporters roamed the country interviewing voters, politicians and local newsmen. The week before election, they rechecked their first impressions, scaled way down their predictions of a Democratic landslide...