Word: stumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...B2H2 bluntly served notice that they would demand debate on their resolution when Congress returns this autumn. Then they announced a bold and backbreaking plan to enlist popular support. Throughout the heat of July and August, eight teams of Congressmen-one Democrat and one Republican to a team-will stump 26 States in favor of B2H2. Republican Joe Ball, teamed with Tennessee's Representative Albert Gore, started the tour this week on the West Coast. Besides the other three authors of B2H2, the teams include, from the Senate: Missouri's Truman, Michigan's Ferguson, South Carolina...
Handsome Pepe, wed in 1942 at San Diego to blonde Mignon Summers, onetime Powers model, aroused President Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Rio's ire early this year. Enthusiastically, the six-foot novillero of the bull ring and artillery lieutenant (V.M.I.-educated, Fort Sill-trained) had started to stump Ecuador in opposition to administration candidates for Congress. Opening at Riobamba, Pepe and cohorts were moving on to Ambato when a platoon of corabineros popped up and arrested them. Given 24 hours to get out of Ecuador, stubborn Pepe balked and a 40-soldier escort literally carried him over the border...
...cinemagoers uninterested in dialectics much of the picture may seem talky. But no one will be bored by the climax. Ambassador Davies returns from the U.S.S.R., makes a series of shouting stump speeches that should bring on an immediate Dies Committee investigation of Warner Bros. For Mr. Davies (in the film) rips into isolationist Congressmen...
...last fall's Belmont Futurity when he took a shine to a filly named Askmenow and refused to pass her in the stretch. But he still refuses to be bullied. He makes his own decisions during a race, diving into narrow openings that would stump a less self-possessed, less determined horse. Each race he takes in stride, even eats an enormous meal immediately afterward - a rarity for a highstrung thoroughbred...
Smiled the Times: "It is likely that some of the students were not serious in answering. . . ." The Times hoped they were few. That some saw in the examination a chance for a heretical stump speech seemed probable. Asked to describe traditional U.S. policy toward China, one wrote: "Wanting China to win and sending damn little to help...