Word: whistlestop
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...they feel that they have a right to an audience with him. And Popes have always responded, each in his own way. The languid Leo X of the Renaissance grandly received his subjects on horseback while at the hunt, and Pius IX had his own railway car to make whistlestop visits through the papal states. The general audiences of the ascetic Pius XII were like an encounter with a saint. John XXIII's were folksy-until sickness and duty made him give them up. The mood of Pope Paul's audiences is somewhere in between, and they draw...
Democratic politicians can rarely afford the luxury of telling the truth to the people: witness the current and fruitless debate on Cuba. Both candidates support the indefensible American blockade of that country, and both know more about the situation than they are telling whistlestop crowds...
...Clement Attlee to pull a Truman. They do have some things in common. People are apt to write Attlee off too easily; lacking greatness, he impresses by his plainness. And he is a fighter. Last week he set off on an eight-day, 1,000-mile, 53-speech Trumanesque "whistlestop" tour of Britain, talking up a "fair deal to all the people." His flat, colorless words conjured up, in the minds of thousands of north country folk, deep-seated memories of "dark Satanic mills," unemployment and poverty-the evils which millions of British Socialists instinctively associate with Toryism...
Referring to the statement that Harry Truman "obviously planned to be in it [the 1950 campaign] to the last whistlestop" [TIME, Sept. 19], and similar predictions in the daily papers from time to time, I would like to pose this question...
Harry Truman obviously planned to be in it to the last whistlestop. He was even considering an invasion of Ohio to tangle with Mr. Republican himself. One of the most energetic campaigners in presidential history was raring...