Word: stumped
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...nature of genius, which is not a word we usually apply to ballplayers, even great ones. But that's how Ty Cobb saw himself, and that's how he wanted to be remembered. To that end, in the last year of his life, he hired a sportswriter named Al Stump to help him write his autobiography. Cobb's orders were to ignore anything in his life that did not directly relate to his career. A few flashbacks aside, Shelton's film records the battle of wills between this mad old man and an amanuensis (a wonderfully befuddled Robert Wuhl), whose...
...mostly predictable world of stump talk, there is nothing quite like Gingrich's messianic oration. He describes a world beset by atrocities from the villages of Bosnia to the suburbs of New Jersey. "If we are not careful, our children could inherit a dark and bloody planet in the 21st century," he warns. Then he offers a vision of salvation and redemption. "I came here tonight to recruit you," he concludes. "To recruit you to the cause of freedom and to the cause of your country." When he finishes, there's more than just loud and sustained cheering. There...
...last week, Clinton returned to stump for Kennedy in Framingham...
Governor William F. Weld '66 continued in July to outpace his Democratic challengers in that all-important measure of a candidate's likability and success on the stump--fundraising...
Before delivering an informal version of his campaign stump speech, McSweeney told the audience about his background and the origins of his interest in politics...