Adlai
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Is the U.S. delegation prepared to reveal new information proving that crucial last point, à la Adlai Stevenson’s Cuban Missile Crisis slide show?
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
It was the eve of the 1956 presidential election fought between Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson.
From Salon • Apr. 19, 2025
“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 • Nov. 15, 2024
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 • Nov. 3, 2024
Like Adlai Stevenson, he had achieved much in defeat.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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