Word: stumping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parlance of campaign schedulers, this is "down time" for Walter Mondale, a chance to recover from one ordeal on the stump and gird for the next. With the Democratic nomination apparently in hand, Mondale loafed about his woodsy $200,000 house in North Oaks, Minn., swatted a tennis ball and pondered his choice of running mate. His aides, however, spent much of last week fretting about his unruly rivals. Gary Hart would not quit. Jesse Jackson was making threatening sounds. The Mondale camp's worst fear was that the pair would form an alliance that could turn the Democratic...
Vexation at poor tactics and abrasive personalities was one thing; conviction was another. Bombeck knew which side she was on. Her success had allowed the Bombecks to move to Phoenix. But in 1978 she gave up her $15,000-a-shot lecturing sideline and began a two-year stump tour in favor of the Equal Rights Amendment. She hit senior citizens' centers, parking lots and Laundromats. Some of her fans wanted to hear her jokes but not her political views. The Lieutenant Governor of one Southern state patted her on the head and said she should be home having...
...Walter Mondale, who has flown more miles, spoken more words and slept in more motel beds than any other presidential candidate in history, the final week on the stump produced no last hurrahs...
...pain, the often agonizing sensations that amputees "feel" in missing limbs. Psychophysiologist Richard Sherman, of Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center in Fort Gordon, Ga., has found that the pain, which afflicts about 80% of amputees at one time or another, is sometimes due to muscle spasms in the stump. When Sherman teaches patients to relax the affected muscles through biofeedback training, the sensations in the phantom limb usually disappear...
...these promotions, Ferraro brought talent to the tasks and early won the respect of House colleagues. She showed herself to be an organization Democrat who, despite her evident ambition, played by the rules. She loyally supported Jimmy Carter after he sent his mother Lillian to Queens to stump on Ferraro's behalf. "When someone does something for me," Ferraro says, "I don't forget." Congressman Leon Panetta, a California Democrat, vouches for her political savvy. "She doesn't shoot from the hip," he says. "She's sensitive to issues and their various ramifications...