Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strategy. Ike will take no chances and campaign as hard as possible. He promised to appear "in every nook and cranny . . ." Ike will campaign mostly by train, but there will also be some plane trips. He will make a maximum number of TV appearances...
Meanwhile, Stevenson continued to prove himself a charming campaigner. During his four-hour train ride back from Chicago, he stopped at station after station, talked to crowds in a broiling sun. At Bloomington, his home town, he introduced his old Negro nurse, said: "If there's anything wrong with me, blame her." Later he said: "I ask your prayers...
Iran's Parliament listened to hotheaded demands that Premier Mossadegh expel the U.S. Mission which helps train the 140,000-man Iranian army. Mossadegh let it be known that he might prefer Yankee dollars to Yankee soldiers...
...making a convivial odyssey out of what, for other Westchester commuters, is a monotonous 45-minute train or car ride, Spyros (rhymes with "hero") was behaving in characteristic fashion.What made the incident exceptional was that the strong-willed Harris eventually reached his original destination...
...pennant race if the St. Louis Cardinals would make it worth his while. "I don't want to see this guy [Giants Manager John McGraw] win the pennant . . ."he wrote Cardinal Outfielder Leslie Mann. "Send the goods to my house ... and I will go home on the next train." Douglas was fired; the Giants won anyhow...