Word: stump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...basketball or politics," says the adviser. "He works like hell, but he needs more time." Although some Democrats are still leery of Hart's personal quirkiness, he was more relaxed and rousing as a campaigner for Mondale this fall than he was last spring on the stump against him. Hart will soon file for re-election to the Senate from Colorado. But he has told friends he is inclined against running in 1986, TIME has learned, so that he can devote himself to a 1988 presidential attempt...
...pioneering quest to become the nation's second-highest elected official, Geraldine Ferraro ran not one campaign but two. On one level, she sought to do what running mates always have: stump long and loyally for her party's presidential nominee and bolster the ticket among his weaker constituencies. On another level, Ferraro was running for the history books. As the first woman ever nominated for the vice presidency by a major party, as well as the first Italian American, she broke new political ground along every step of a grueling four-month journey...
...disease, would some day cause her to leave Alaska and would eventually take her life. In the early spring she wrote in her journal, "I've never seen such a March in my life. The only thing I heard yesterday was a robin. Sometimes I sit on a stump and listen to the silence...
...messages grew more effective, focusing on fairness, arms control and the future. The most gripping was a five-minute film intercutting shots of awed youngsters and nuclear missiles hurtling skyward, accompanied by Crosby Stills Nash & Young's evocative Teach Your Children. As other commercials depicted Mondale on the stump declaring, "It's time for America to move on," news clips showed him uttering the same words to the most clamorous crowds in his career...
...problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish. And all you have to do for a summit is ring up the Kremlin and say, "Hey, Konstantin, let's get together next week in Geneva...