Word: stumps
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...what a creep he had been when he had written that, yet reject his right to excise a word. His own wife was "a pathetic little wren," though at another time she was his "treasure girl with a heart of gold," but then again she was "homely as a stump fence built in the dark...
...stump in Cebu City, an opposition stronghold 375 miles south of Manila, however, the President and his wife appeared vigorous and eager for their fourth election in 20 years. Wearing a bulletproof vest under his traditional white barong tagalog after reports of an assassination plot, the President held forth for 90 minutes before 3,000 cheering supporters at the Cebu Coliseum. Marcos promised them that he would not take the election lightly: "I always run scared." Last week political observers were asking whether voters in the Philippines will once more offer Marcos their support on voting day. Many were also...
There is still fight aplenty in the President, and his opponents know that. On some issues Reagan has not yet taken the field. When he gets back from his European trip in May, he will stump the nation for tax reform and more Government restraint. How effective he will be is an open question now. Everything he says and does will get even more scrutiny and less tolerance than in the past, as demonstrated by the German cemetery incident...
...every canon of ordinary decency and fair dealing.” O’Toole’s narrative of the ruined friendship paints Roosevelt as the pigheaded party who refused Taft’s peace gestures. Taft is the far more sympathetic figure. For instance, while on the stump, Taft broke into tears, lamenting that “Roosevelt was my closest friend...
...Doctor will manage his candidacy as ineffectively as he managed the Senate. His poor leadership has been a boon to Democrats, especially when they were able to swing enough Republican votes to cut Bush’s original tax cuts in half. If, however, Frist proves better on the stump than he is in the Senate, my embarrassment will be complete, and I will be forced to again apologize for my state. Perhaps I can seek solace with liberal Texans who now live with the question that I hope to avoid: “If the president is going...