whistle-stop
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Leveraging his enormous popularity, Roosevelt conducted a 10,000-mile, coast-to-coast whistle-stop campaign.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Today's Bank Holiday weekend will start with Rishi Sunak visiting the north-east after the prime minister completed a whistle-stop tour of the four home nations over the last two days.
From BBC ● May 25, 2024
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
Segal, a former press secretary and aide to both Democratic and Republican candidates, explains that whistle-stop was a railroad term at the time to describe small towns without regularly scheduled train service.
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
At whistle-stops across the country, similar scenes were played out last week as candidates for the Nov. 16 national elections revved campaign machinery into high gear.
From Time Magazine Archive
We went through all of Mississippi with just some short whistle-stops.
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
Imitating Harry Truman, Ford whistle-stopped by railroad through Michigan over the weekend.
From Time Magazine Archive
And as he whistle-stopped through Michigan and Ohio, hedgehopped into Kentucky and then flew in to Cincinnati, he worked these themes hard.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
On the day that Harry Truman whistle-stopped at Clarksburg, the Exponent carried not a word about it.
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
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
"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
Nixon has zigzagged 18,000 miles across the state, most recently whistle-stopping from Santa Cruz to San Diego in a "Victory Special" train.
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
