Word: stumped
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...Representative Wright Patman, going all out for Stevenson and Sparkman, was making plans to stump the state...
Finally, at Kasson, Minn., Ike faced direct comparison with the best Democratic stump speaker to come out of Illinois since Stephen A. Douglas-and Ike's friends were satisfied that their man had not come off second best...
...master, the Maharaja of Bastar. But then, in 1950, democracy came to the jungle. The new constitution abolished the rule of the maharajas and elections were to be held to send representatives to Parliament. The Maharaja persuaded Chief Kesa to run for office. The chief took the stump, speaking in the villages and the jungle clearings, assuring his friends that a vote for Kesa was a vote for progress...
...Shivers-Daniels defection brought swift reaction from Democratic loyalists. Speaker of the "House Sam Rayburn announced that he was going to stump the state for Stevenson as did U.S. Senator Lyndon Johnson...
...show was "a silly business." Later he was officially scolded for snapping at a whisky broker on What's My Line?: "I'm tired of looking at your face." Unlike U.S. audiences, Britons win no prizes on their quiz shows. The successful challenger who manages to stump the panel is rewarded with a parchment scroll, suitable for framing and hanging in the front parlor...