Word: politicking
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...Colorado, and from the amateur boxing contests which earned him his nickname. But since Jan. 20, when the Denver County Democratic Assembly unanimously endorsed him for Congress, no candidate has ever been so completely muzzled. Until his discharge from the Army (expected this week), he is forbidden to politick. So Democrats have sheltered him from photographers, have booked no speaking dates, opened no headquarters. They even hustled him off to Wichita to keep him out of sight...
...happier times campaigning had been a pleasure keener than stamp collecting. But last week there was a difference. Some things had changed. To politick is to try to win. And Franklin Roosevelt had said, in all but words, that he was trying to win a position not yet official, but certainly more real every day: Presidency of the Western Hemisphere. A month ago it had looked like a Roosevelt landslide, last week it no longer looked that...