Word: stumped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stump. Alarmed by the trend, Adenauer summoned coalition leaders and expressed his concern over "the echo" which Moscow's wiles are producing in the West German population. He fired off an open letter to Socialist Ollenhauer warning that the Socialist course might land Germany "between two stools...without friends." Then the 79-year-old Chancellor announced that he too would stump the country in the coming month, to warn Germans against putting too much faith in echoes...
Prophets & Promises. Nehru's confusion was all the more apparent, since he had journeyed south purposely to stump against the Communists in the tight, important campaign for the Andhra state elections. The Communists are driving hard to win in Andhra, an arid land cut by ravines and deep poverty. The Communists are stronger there than anywhere else in India. Andhra is India's first "linguistic state," formed in 1953 among the 21 million Telegu-speaking people. As such, it is only one of 29 Indian states, but India's Communists hope to make it their first conquest...
...incendiary speeches to the Neuberger campaign, was a fire-breathing advance man. Neuberger, who in 1950 had written that Morse "has reduced to an exact science the technique of leading a double life in politics," was surprised and gratified by Morse's support, promised to stump for him in return...
Also, Admiral Felix Stump, U.S. Navy commander in chief in the Pacific, turned up in Taipei, having inspected the Nationalist fleet and Nationalist-held Tachen Island. Asked if the Seventh Fleet's role would be purely defensive, the admiral said: "No commander likes to sit back and wait. Sometimes you have to go out and start shooting...
...same vein as Stump's statement was the U.S. order withdrawing four of the six divisions guarding the containment line in Korea. The U.S. could have reacted to the Indo-China debacle by freezing its strength in Korea. Instead, it now proceeded on the premise that what deters the Reds from further aggression is the general U.S. power of retaliation, not the policeman on a particular corner...