Word: stumping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Capitol was coming closer, but my candle was down to a small stump. I wanted so badly for it to last until we got there. We passed a pair of cops, poised with night sticks. They were bored...
...droop-mustached Grass is carrying on his highly personalized crusade on behalf of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He is not a member of the party, but nonetheless feels closely linked to it because of leftist leanings and his personal friendship with SPD Leader Willy Brandt. On the stump, Grass has also been spreading a nonpartisan gospel of his own. Germans, he maintains, must shake off their ingrained submission to authority and tradition and participate more actively in government affairs. "People leave too much to the parties," he says. "What we need in this country is a more active citizenship...
...Orleans gives you the feeling of having the whole United States balancing on your fulcrum. I have a very strong sense of the Mississippi River being the trunk of the America tree. When the country falls over, New Orleans will drift out into the Gulf as the stump...
...sees its future as dim: ". . . the parts will being to drop off, as the autonomous professor has begun to do; or go into spells of paralysis, as the student riots have shown to be possible. Apathy and secession will take care of the rest, until a stump of something once alive is left to vegetate on the endowment or the annual tax subsidy. The change will be gradual enough for everything to adjust to it, and the versity, neither uni nor multi, will survive, in utility a vestige just next to the Electoral College. some will think...
Taxes and Milk. Intellectual and seemingly inexhaustible, Obey, 30, healed party wounds that have festered since the Chicago convention, and got popular Senator Gaylord Nelson to stump for him in eleven of the district's 15 counties. He had two important factors going for him. One was that reapportionment shifts had cut into Republican strength-a fact that went all but unnoticed last year because Laird had amassed 64.5% of the vote. Another was Republican Governor Warren Knowles' proposal to balance a $25 million budget deficit by raising taxes, a move endorsed by Chilsen. The day before...