Word: stumping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...struck out as a party man. He appointed his own associated to key positions instead of party stalwarts. Always remote to the DFL hierarchy, Rolvaag particularly annoyed the regulars by refusing to stump for legislative candidates...
...Afraid, Afraid!" Though Johnson dislikes New York and recoils from its politics, he nonetheless flew in to stump for Democratic Challenger Frank O'Connor, whose campaign to unseat Governor Nelson Rockefeller is in trouble. The President, who was criticized last year for withholding support for New York City's Democratic mayoral candidate until the last moment, realized that if he stayed away this time and O'Connor and other Democratic candidates lost, the White House would be blamed. Worse yet perhaps, if O'Connor won, much of the credit would go to Senator Robert Kennedy...
Other members of his executive committee include Walter Knott and Walt Disney, who built amusement empires in Orange County and now dabble in politics. John Wayne and Ray Bolger, looking considerably down-at-the-mouth since "Hondo" and "The Wizard of Oz" respectively, have also taken to the stump...
...factory gate, he will often wait with hands limp at his sides, nodding a .bit awkwardly at passers-by until someone recognizes him. Then, on center stage, Reagan's face lights up, a joke comes to his lips and he launches smoothly into a spontaneous-sounding stump speech on his plans to put California to rights...
...been tried, argues the A.M.A. "If the patient has one good leg, the other should not be replanted. The chances of neurologic recovery are poor, the handicap of a shortened extremity severe, and the value of a prosthesis great enough that the patient is served best with a good stump and an artificial limb. An entire arm should not usually be restored to a patient over 40 if he has one good arm. Recovery of protective sensation in the fingers will seldom be worth the prolonged disability and the rehabilitative operations...