Word: stumping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...before dawn one morning while police searched his house for weapons. The ostensible reason was that thugs from Nkumbula's party rather than foreign intruders had been responsible for a series of raids along the Angola border in which 14 Zambian villages were burned. On television and in stump speeches, Kaunda in velvety tones accused his old mentor of having become "a misguided political adventurer...
Around the Stump. The reason for the delegates' decision at Fort Worth was summarized by Dr. E. S. James, editor emeritus of Texas' Baptist Standard. "The school is too fine an institution to let it die or stand idle while public-supported institutions smother it," he said. A committee is studying whether other schools subsidized by the Texas Baptist Convention be made independent so that they too can benefit from Government aid. Other state conventions were not so forthright in dealing with the dilemma of federal aid. The Georgia Baptist Convention voted to let a church-run hospital...
...repay Washington from private funds, permitting them to claim that the church itself has stayed clear of involvement with Government money. The Rev. J. T. Miller, president of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, smilingly explains that the college has thus solved its financial problems "by beating the devil around the stump one way or another...
Weapons and Umbrellas. In fact, the election results may have less effect in Okinawa than in Japan. Premier Eisaku Sato, who is up for re-election as party leader next week, sent six Cabinet Ministers to stump for Loser Nishime, and suffered a consequent loss of prestige. Yara's election is a sharp reminder to both Sato and the U.S. of an approaching deadline for resolving the question of Okinawa's status. The U.S.-Japan Mutual Security Pact is due to be reviewed in 1970, and could face massive popular opposition if a date for Okinawa...
...even about the major issues of war and race, to say nothing of lesser problems. As a result, their true policies often seem equally vague to many voters. Not that taking hard positions on hard problems is easy; more and more national problems have grown so complicated that solutions stump and split the most informed experts. Moreover, a candidate must simplify such problems for the public, and inevitably risk turning complexities into divisive emotions...