whistle-stop
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In 2020, the tourist attraction was closed due to Coronavirus restrictions leaving visitors only allowed to outside but not go in for the whistle-stop tour.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026
Elections follow technology from newspapers to Teddy Roosevelt’s whistle-stop train tours, radio addresses, newsreels and sweaty Richard Nixon vs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 16, 2025
And he prevented Mr. Trump from running up the score in the conservative, rural areas that span much of the state, partly with old-fashioned efforts like a whistle-stop Amtrak tour of western Pennsylvania.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
The book also revisits whistle-stop speeches and the crowds that gathered to hear the likes of Robert Kennedy, Richard Nixon, George Bush or Barack Obama.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2024
They was big enough for a station, but not much bigger than what we called a whistle-stop.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
On the other, it celebrates the American vernacular in the form of Central California whistle-stops, working-class bungalows and Joan Blondell’s impersonating a tipsy hash-slinger out for a night on the town.
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2017
After all, coastal hamlets, mountaintop villages, and desert whistle-stops have inspired American artists for generations, among them, the Impressionists of Connecticut’s Old Lyme Colony and the minimalist installation artists who more recently gentrified Marfa.
From Time ● Jan. 26, 2015
Before long, Ms. Raimondo has been cautioning in whistle-stops here and across the state, that figure will climb perilously toward 20 cents.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2011
Armed with that record, the no longer amiable Truman initiated the famous railroad tour that was named when Senator Robert Taft complained that the President was "blackguarding Congress at whistle-stops all over the country."
From Time Magazine Archive
Even at night, that train made whistle-stops in places where there was nothing but farms or a small mill.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
Riding a red train, he whistle-stopped the country defending workers and exhorting voters to support him.
From US News ● Jun. 8, 2016
Near the end of the campaign, Republican Presidential Candidate Dwight Eisenhower whistle-stopped through Arizona; Barry had pictures of himself and Ike plastered across the state.
From Time Magazine Archive
While Richard Nixon whistle-stopped his way through the vast expanse of Siberia, the world barely noted the foreign ministers' conference grinding to an inconclusive end in Geneva.
From Time Magazine Archive
He whistle-stopped through Bavaria and Hesse, speaking from the back platform of his train.
From Time Magazine Archive
Imitating Harry Truman, Ford whistle-stopped by railroad through Michigan over the weekend.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Knowlands packed their bags, set off from their Oakland home for a two-month, 140-speech whistle-stopping "Report to the People of California."
From Time Magazine Archive
"What's the word for this trip?" asked newsmen of Harry Truman as he for three days of whistle-stopping in New England and New York.
From Time Magazine Archive
There will be far less whistle-stopping and fewer talks with local bosses, now that TV is out of the bush league of politicking.
From Time Magazine Archive
While whistle-stopping through California, Kennedy hit the issue head on.
From Time Magazine Archive
Battling an ulcer, he went all the way with H.S.T. for 22,000 whistle-stopping miles and saw him snatch victory from odds-on Favorite Tom Dewey.
From Time Magazine Archive
