Word: stumped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well as every hand-rubbing Democrat-knows that a Knight-Knowland primary battle would create one of the ding-dongest political fights in California's history, all to the detriment of the Republican Party. Beyond that, as they all know as well, the statehouse is a good stump from which Governor Bill Knowland could lay his plans to fight Californian Dick Nixon for the 1960 presidential nomination...
...must get to know the play thoroughly. He should read it again and again. I personally work more by ear than by eye; I find it best to read a script aloud to friends or family, because it compels me to go slowly. Any one of you could doubtless stump me on a fact about Hamlet in three seconds; but not six of you know the play as well...
Pedicle flaps from the arm are sometimes attached to the stump of a partly destroyed nose as the first step in its reconstruction. They are then severed from the arm. This gives the patient a "trunk" several inches long. One man disappeared after this stage of the operation, did not show up again for years. Then he explained: he had made a living in a circus sideshow as "the elephant man." With the flap tailored as planned, the nose looked normal...
...seriously thought of quitting. Then he began to hear the voice of the people, and found himself regarded as a hero. Shrewdly he called a general election, selflessly offered the British Colonial Office all his shares in the African Continental Bank (the Colonial Office politely declined), and hit the stump. While tireless British colonial officials went into the jungle to persuade 3,000,000 eligible voters to register, and to show them how to cast their ballots, whispers went forth that the tribunal had been an "imperialist plot" to discredit the Nigerian nationalist movement, that Zik had in reality been...
...What is the average member of Congress to do when he goes home? Is he going to permit himself to be sliced to pieces by an adversary on the stump who says that the member voted to increase the funds for foreign countries but voted against the old folks at home; that he voted against the veterans; that he voted to give it away overseas, but he voted against every program to help the American people...