11.   As Green made a stump speech in the next room, Zagat fetched a glass of wine for Sorid.

12.   As political editor, Yoachum understood prepackaged candidates, prearranged conventions and predictable stump speeches.

13.   Asked by reporters during an airborne news conference one afternoon if he would be giving a lengthy stump speech at the airport in Palm Springs, he blanched.

14.   As they rose one by one to the wooden dais to speak, the opposition politicians appeared to be making stump speeches rather than talking about constitutional issues.

15.   At fund-raisers and in stump speeches, the Texas governor tells of rising test scores and improved student achievement.

16.   At times, especially when he seemed tired, the candidate fumbled applause lines in his standard stump speech.

17.   Besides, he had been so relentlessly outspoken in criticism of the Republican incumbent, Wesley Powell, he did not even need to write a stump speech.

18.   Bennett and Alexander, both former secretaries of education, offered truncated versions of stump speeches emphasizing the need to transfer power from the federal government to the states.

19.   -- There was no stump speech Friday for Sen. Bob Dole, majority leader and presidential candidate.

20.   A bunch of middle-aged, white guy, career politicians in navy suits and red ties, arguing policy and reciting stump speeches from memory?