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
Democrat Adlai Stevenson and Republican Thomas Dewey ran twice and lost twice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2025
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
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 ● Sep. 6, 2024
Adlai Stevenson, the U.S. representative at the U.N., wrote a letter saying that his government would do everything it could to prevent a death sentence.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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