Word: stumped
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...Last year the trio's work produced $500,000 for a man who water-skied into a submerged stump and was paralyzed from the neck down. In another case, a jackknifing truck had killed a father, mother and three children and left four more children seriously injured. Boccardo, Bradley and Drendel won a $1,432,500 verdict...
...appeal to what is best in each one of us instead of what is mean and divisive." Yet, anyone who heard him the night before at a raucous Democratic party rally in the municipal auditorium at Albuquerque might be forced to revise his opinion about George McGovern's stump style-and the political atmosphere...
...again by the Republican National Committee on election eve, it became the party's campaign windup. Though the President sees things differently, there is considerable evidence that the speech did Republican candidates more harm than good. To many voters, the whole approach evidently suggested the rhetoric of the stump politician, not the reasoning of a President who must lead a nation. It is possible to imagine that the speech, without being "above politics," might have been more productive if Nixon had said something like this...
...miles up a mountain trail in central Washington to where William O. Douglas was camping. They presented him with a petition requesting a temporary injunction against the Portland police. The iconoclastic judge told them to come back the next day, promising to leave his decision on a tree stump. Two of the petitioners, suffering from blisters and fatigue, failed to make the return trip. The third, locating the petition, found that he had indeed been stumped. Petition denied...
While politicians, who know a good stump when they see one, exhort the all-white crowd and country bands pick and sing, the spitters gather around tobacco manufacturers' displays on Billy John's log-cabin porch to discuss their craft. Don Snyder, 22, the Mississippi State University student who has held the distance crown for two years, explains that it takes time "to get your juice right. It can't be too thick or too thin. You've got to just chew for about an hour and not drink or eat anything and get your mouth...