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
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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
But in this pageantry-less, slogan-less war, the train just rumbled on toward New York, through the big towns and the whistle-stops.
From Time Magazine Archive
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We went through all of Mississippi with just some short whistle-stops.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
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Riding a red train, he whistle-stopped the country defending workers and exhorting voters to support him.
From US News ● Jun. 8, 2016
On the day that Harry Truman whistle-stopped at Clarksburg, the Exponent carried not a word about it.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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Like Harry Truman in 1948, he whistle-stopped through Ohio and motored across eastern Pennsylvania, giving as much hell as he had earlier absorbed.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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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
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Besides last week's whistle-stopping, both girls have appeared regularly at weekend political rallies and cookouts all over the country.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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While whistle-stopping through California, Kennedy hit the issue head on.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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