Word: stumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campaign entered its final week, more & more shouters appeared. National Tory Leader John Bracken, home from a monthlong tour of European battlefronts, was ready to stump for Candidate Case. Overseas, he said, he had found plenty of evidence that reinforcements were inadequate. He would tell the voters so. To offset his speeches, Navy Minister Angus L. Macdonald reportedly was rushing home from London. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King himself leaped into the campaign again. To Grey North's voters he addressed two messages...
...slightly more than 100 yards they have to go in the open, and through our telescopes we can see them darting across in ones and twos, leaping into trenches. Everybody in the OP is yelling as they pour in. Some of them drop, spring up again, dash from shattered stump to shattered stump. Then nobody can be seen and Jap mortars blanket the entire position from behind the ridge...
When confident Impresario Dan Golenpaul offered $500 to anyone who could completely stump his Information Please experts on all parts of a question, he figured on losing once in every five programs. For ten straight programs, the experts parried the thrusts. The break came last week...
...stump Truman has remained very much himself, getting off homely remarks, standing at attention whenever bands play the Missouri Waltz (thus forcing the audience to do the same), plugging all local Democrats as a regular party man should. (In California he thus endorsed Hal Styles, Democratic candidate for Congress, who had been clearly exposed as a onetime member of the Ku Klux Klan...
...Garner said, "Thank you. Thank you. These are mighty good.'' He stood, looking up, as the train began to roll away. Then he walked off, stopping once to strike a kitchen match expertly on the seat of his trousers and relight the frayed stump of his Mexican cigar...