Word: stump
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Editors: Your cover picture [Dec. 20] is amusing. It coincided with my concept of President-elect Carter's present status-that of a little boy who learned to swim in mud holes and is now about to jump into a big pond, having no stump or overhanging branches...
...hours later, Rabin flew to Rosh Pina in northern Israel to make what had become, in effect, the opening stump speech in his campaign for reelection. In flight, he discussed his decisions with TIME's David Halevy, who has known Rabin since 1968. "I have fulfilled my duty as Premier," he told Halevy. "Believe me, the actions taken by the N.R.P. ministers would have interfered with Israel's democratic system. It was my duty, therefore, to ask for their resignations. Democracy is more important than one officeholder...
...entered the dimly-lit room, a half-spent stump of a cigarette dangling from my lips. I couldn't discern the contents of the room, beyond the mere outlines of a victrola in a far, far corner. The music was mournful--Billy Joel was singing about a lonely old man playing his lonely organ...
...Gerald Ford on the stump...
...they could bottle and market their bombast and bluster about the U.S. economy, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford would become millionaires many times over. To hear Carter on the stump, the nation is heading right back to 1932, with serpentine lines of unemployed, shuttered factories and silent cash registers. After the Administration released some third-quarter statistics last week, Carter put out a statement that said they point to "a continuation of high unemployment, huge budget deficits and dim prospects for an improvement in the standard of living for the average worker...