Adlai
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
That first evening, patrons — Jackie Kennedy, Nelson Rockefeller, Dean Rusk and Adlai Stevenson among them — mounted escalators to an auditorium that was a symphony in deep blue and gold, with swooping balconies.
From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2022
Ambassador Adlai Stevenson complained not long ago that in the United Nations “a skin game” was being played.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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