Word: stumping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...come there to feed. The natives take advantage of the fact by catching the sharks and selling their fins to rich Chinese, who prize fins as aphrodisiacs. But the shark fishermen pay a price for their enterprise: scrabbling over the beach to tend the drying fins, each shows the stump of a leg, a maimed hand, the nub of an elbow...
...course, he got 90 minutes of free, prime time on TV, and was able to meet the folks in the Kremlin's mighty marble Palace of the Congresses. Otherwise, Nikita Khrushchev's stump speech to his constituents from Moscow's Kalinin district sounded as if he had to run for dear life to get re-elected to the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Republic this week...
...enough to make old Peter Stuyvesant stomp around on his stump. From Brazil, 23 Jews had arrived in Governor Stuyvesant's New Amsterdam in 1654. Peter sent off a letter to his superiors in the Dutch West India Company seeking permission (unsuccessfully) to evict the members of the "very repugnant, deceitful race, hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ, lest they infect and trouble this new colony with their customary usury and deceitful trading...
...Ross Barnett at the Law School Forum, while pathetically inadequate for the occasion, was in some ways a masterpiece. Mr. Barnett could not hope to deliver anything resembling a logical, sensible position, as he has never before been called upon to do so. Instead he chose to present a stump speech, a form with which he is intimately acquainted...
...stump speech need not make sense or state an argument lucidly. Such precision would detract from its real purpose--to excite the uneducated and impress upon them the identification of the speaker with "traditional values." The phrases must pour forth in magnificent thunder, roll like waves across the audience. Any attempt at argument might confuse the people--or if they understood it, enrage them. Unfortunately for the Honorable Governor, his audience at Sanders wanted clear argument. Three professors of law were on hand to debate substantive issues in intelligible terms. Ross gave them only patriotic sentiments, eloquent appeals to liberty...