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- noun Plural form of
whistle-stop .
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Examples
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There were audiences with local politicians in St. Louis and Kansas City, and crowds to be acknowledged from the back platform at innumerable whistle-stops across the Midwest.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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There were audiences with local politicians in St. Louis and Kansas City, and crowds to be acknowledged from the back platform at innumerable whistle-stops across the Midwest.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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Half a mile of track spread out on multiple levels, through a string of tiny burgs — whistle-stops, Don B. calls them — and a small-but-swinging skiing community at the top of a snow-capped mountain.
The Wrong Barthelme 2009
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May 16 brings potentially hazardous primary election whistle-stops in Kentucky, Oregon and, the grand central station that is Pennsylvania.
E-VOTE TRAIN WRECK 2006: Another Week, Another Wild �� and Unfortunate �� Ride�� 2006
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Clinton arrived in South Africa after earlier whistle-stops in
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Sam hurried back to Cleveland to commence another string of eastward whistle-stops.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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Sam hurried back to Cleveland to commence another string of eastward whistle-stops.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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I think candidate Dewey joked at Truman for making campaign stops at whistle-stops at unimportant places.
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"Blackguarding" Congress at whi -- whistle-stops all across the country.
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Crowds gathered at whistle-stops to cheer the celebrated warrior.
Once They Moved Like the Wind David Roberts 1994
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