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Adlai

[ ad-lee, -ley, -lahy ]

noun

  1. a male given name.


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Russ told me, I remember, that he met Bacall during an Adlai Stevenson campaign.

A month before Kennedy was shot, Adlai Stevenson, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, was assaulted in Dallas.

In one, Adlai Stevenson explains, like a displaced Mafia don, why he feels angry at JFK, whose career he helped to advance.

It was a culture nibbling on the genial jingoism of Norman Vincent Peale and being made somewhat uncomfortable by Adlai Stevenson.

When John F. Kennedy ran against Adlai Stevenson for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1960, he did so as a hawk.

He came out with an editorial about the incident with Adlai Stevenson and all those things.

At that moment, you knew nothing about the Adlai Stevenson incident, is that correct?

So Adlai Stevenson was down there in the latter part of October.

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