Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of the contenders for the Democratic nomination stuck to their car caravans, airplanes and special trains, talking themselves hoarse and trying to collar delegates (see below). Actually, delegate figures mean little in the Democratic situation, which can best be described in a tired old military term: fluid. There are few "committed" Democratic delegates who would not switch to someone else if Harry Truman or some of the big state bosses gave the nod. In Washington, just about anybody, with the possible exception of the elevator man in the Washington Monument, was being talked about as a possible candidate. This...
When a newsman last week asked a candidate's pressagent what his man would talk about in his next speech, the pressagent replied: "I guess it will be the speech again." All four of the Democratic Party's leading avowed candidates are stuck in similar ruts. Reason: the freeze-up created by the party leaders' indecision on whom to back...
...again. Jim Duff came up from Washington. Conspicuously missing: John Fine. The group's decision: John Fine ought to come out immediately for Ike. Otherwise, Fine would either 1) be "on the freight," i.e., go for Eisenhower too late to do himself any good, or 2) be stuck with the man (Taft) who, the leaders thought, was sure to lose in November...
...dropping out as mechanical or physical fatigue overcame the cars or their drivers. At the eight-hour mark, the first Cunningham car dropped out with valve trouble; two hours later, for the same reason, the second was forced to quit. Owner-Driver Cunningham, along with Relief Driver Bill Spear, stuck it out in the third...
...grandstand was half empty, and the high-school bands-drawn from all over Dickinson County-were huddling in cars and under eaves, sodden and miserable. The television men urged Ike to talk from a dry room under the stands, but when he heard that half of his audience had stuck through the rain, he turned on his heel and splashed through the thick, black mud to the outdoor platform. A solicitous aide tried to shield him with a big umbrella, but Ike brushed it aside. Then he tossed away his broad-brimmed hat, and, with rain splattering on his bald...