Adlai

[ ad-lee, -ley, -lahy ]

noun

1. a first name.

Example Sentences

“We like Ike” was turned into Roy O. Disney’s hugely successful animated TV campaign commercial, “I Like Ike,” helping the guy good at the mike win in a landslide over Adlai Stevenson.

From Los Angeles Times

Political attack ads came to television in the 1950s, alongside the rise of the medium, and by the 1952 presidential race between Republican Dwight Eisenhower and Democrat Adlai Stevenson, they were already a fixture.

From Slate

Other Americans have advocated for strong bureaucracies to monitor potentially apocalyptic activities like testing weapons of mass destruction as far back as Adlai Stevenson's 1956 presidential campaign.

From Salon

And despite meeting people like Adlai Stevenson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and others, 2024 was the best.

From Salon

To be fair, Nixon made his prediction as a way to boast about economic growth under Eisenhower and make the case that the Democratic presidential candidate, Adlai Stevenson, would institute policies that would hobble the “unbelievably prosperous” future that would unfold in a second Eisenhower term.

From Los Angeles Times