Word: stumped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what sounded at times like a classic Clinton stump speech, the president listed the ways in which his current policies on health care reform, education and social security privatization are benefiting the American people...
...encouraging the cautious former Prime Minister to come out publicly last summer with his plan to run for President in 2000. They confirm that the two met to discuss the future shortly before Yeltsin fired Kiriyenko and his whole Cabinet. Unlikely to be anything but lackluster on the stump, Chernomyrdin would now gain enormous advantage in a potential electoral struggle with more dynamic campaigners like retired General Alexander Lebed if Yeltsin were to quit and make him acting chief executive. By one account, it was Berezovsky too who unexpectedly called on Vice Prime Minister Anatoli Chubais, the most pugnacious reformer...
...course, to paraphrase Mark Twain, rumors of Bob Hope's demise were greatly exaggerated. Despite the momentary trauma it probably caused his family, friends and fans, the AP's grave error (no pun intended) did allow Hope the chance to hear Congressman Bob Stump (R-Ariz.) solemnly announce on the floor of Congress that "I have the sad responsibility to tell you this afternoon that Bob Hope passed away. We will all miss him very much." Adding a bipartisan twist to the tribute, Congressman David Bonior (D-Mich.) echoed Stump's sentiments. "We are all saddened by his passing," said...
...blanks-and-all pre-obituary was actually an Associated Press "preparedness" story that was mistakenly posted on the wire service's web site. But neither the staffer nor Armey caught on. Armey went straight to Rep. Bob Stump of Arizona and asked him to announce Hope's death on the House floor. Reuters picked up the Stump speech -- broadcast live on C-SPAN -- and ABC reported the death of Hope in a special national news alert, complete with a package of clips and performances...
...Hope, of course, wasn't dead at all but having breakfast at home in California. His daughter Linda confirmed this when the embarrassed Armey and Stump called to apologize. And the staffer who took the obit at its word? "It got handed straight to Armey, and that doesn't normally happen," Michelle Davis of Armey's press office admitted to TIME Daily. "It wasn't someone who regularly deals with the press." And would this person now be an ex- staffer? "Not at all," said Davis. "That's ridiculous...