Word: stumped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Islander who had already got President Eisenhower's off-the-cuff endorsement. But not even sage Len Hall had a chance. By August, Rockefeller had collected delegates enough to turn the state Republican convention into a formality. By September, scarcely pausing for breath, he was on the campaign stump, attracting larger crowds than the most optimistic Republicans had expected. Everyone agreed Nelson Rockefeller was a political golden boy; everyone suggested a different reason why. Said brother Laurance, an amateur psychologist: "He has reached a degree of maturity really free of egotism, fears and frustrations, and is able to project...
...have been clattering about for weeks. They had produced a picture of overwhelming sentiment in favor of a policy change on Red China, overwhelming disagreement with the U.S. The general council of the United Church of Canada called for admitting Red China to the U.N.; politicians took to the stump to attack...
...funds" for "any school or institution of learning not owned or exclusively controlled by the state." On the pretext of support for the Gray Plan with its fatal flaw, the Byrd organization fought hard for a constitutional amendment. Leading the way was Attorney General Lindsay Almond, a stem-winding stump orator, who thundered at Appomattox that defeat of the amendment would "engulf us in the blackness of indescribable chaos ... A vote for amendment is a vote against government by the N.A.A.C.P. in Virginia...
...Tommy Boston Jr. of Cartersville, Ga., was taken to St. Joseph's Infirmary in Atlanta, where Surgeon William A. Hopkins found that he had a short stub of gullet extending one-third the normal length down from his throat, then nothing. Dr. Hopkins led this stump out through a hole in the neck, so Tommy could get rid of saliva. For feeding, he ran a tube into the stomach. This worked well for six years, until Tommy was big enough to undergo the operation. Then Dr. Hopkins pushed the gullet stump back into place, stretched a piece of Tommy...
...other circumstances the man in the wheelchair would have seemed a pathetic figure. He had been at Buchenwald concentration camp. His face was pale and craggy, his left arm a stump, his right leg missing. Sick and shattered, he looked older than his 43 years. But in Bayreuth Circuit Court last week spectators hissed as the man was carried past. "Beast!" they cried. "Monster...