Word: galluping
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...rejoice that Willkie is holding his own in the Gallup polls-"momentarily...
...that point last week Pollster Gallup came in with a killer: 55% of the popular vote for Roosevelt, 45% for Willkie; Roosevelt-453 electoral votes, Willkie-78; Roosevelt-38 States, Willkie...
...speech was logical, well-argued, businesslike-but not the stuff for a throng that wanted emotion, excitement, slam-bang oratory. The applause, at first hopeful, then despondent, finally narrowed down to the reserved seats. That night Willkie's shaken assistant kept from him the news of the Friday Gallup poll...
...Willkie was shaken by the Gallup figures, he did not show it publicly. Next day he went on, as hard as ever . . . "the glory of the United States is business." At Fresno and at Stockton boys and young men booed and heckled him. But everywhere the crowds were big-to the pros, unexpectedly big. Day after day the big round-shouldered amateur learned: how to roll with a punch, how to throw a hook. Most important, he never quit. Grudgingly, the newshawks came to respect his bull-like persistence, his obstinate honesty, the deep strength of his convictions, which...
...seemed last week that the U. S. was almost ready to give England "anything else they want." Polling the nation, Dr. George Gallup found that 52% of U. S. citizens now favored helping England win, even at the risk of getting into...