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Word: uneeda (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hampshire, Tennessee's Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver stopped over in Boston, ran into ugly weather, donned a slicker and sou'wester that made it a hard choice as to whether he most resembled Captain Ahab or the Uneeda Biscuit boy. In New Hampshire, Kefauver cried: "I'm here to win." Later he explained: "I want to be President of the U.S. because I have great ambitions for our country." In the same spirit, he refused to pose for photographers in his familiar coonskin cap, saying that he has reluctantly scrapped it as his political symbol because "some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Up & Down Hill | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

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