Word: stumping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some politicians, notably the British, cultivate an amiable relationship with hecklers. A man would shout "Rubbish!" during one of former Prime Minister Harold Wilson's stump speeches, and Wilson would imperturbably answer, "Sir, we will get to your area of special interest in just a moment." Other politicians have got down to the darker possibilities. Once in 1921, Adolf Hitler led a gang of Brownshirts into a meeting that was to be addressed by a Bavarian federalist named Ballerstedt. "We got what we wanted," Hitler said. "Ballerstedt did not speak." Hitler explained, "The National Socialist Movement will...
...Yanks think life back home is pretty tough. In Thorn Birds the characters bellyache about the flies and heat all the time and talk about "being stuck out here in this hellish place" beyond the black stump. Actually, they never leave Northern California, except to go to Hawaii, which is the network's idea of Queensland. You don't see many gum trees either, and Qantas didn't lend the filmmakers its koala, but they did borrow a kangaroo, and now and again the director, Daryl Duke, shoos it across the set for local color. It died...
...Black stump, beyond the: any excessively remote part of the outback...
Sandy blight, n.: an inflammation of the tear ducts caused by living beyond the black stump...
After his retirement from the Knicks ended, Bradley went on the campaign stump against unknown Republican Geoffrey Bell, armed with high name recognition and what he called "trust...