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- noun Alternative spelling of
stem-winder .
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Examples
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To undo the harm the Wright videos had done to the campaign, Obama and Favreau concocted a five-thousand-word stemwinder to distance Obama from the man without exactly disowning him.
Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011
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To undo the harm the Wright videos had done to the campaign, Obama and Favreau concocted a five-thousand-word stemwinder to distance Obama from the man without exactly disowning him.
Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011
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The next time he gives a stemwinder will be the first.
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Video of our intrepid Lt. Governor John Cherry delivering a "stemwinder" at the 2009
RightMichigan.com - 2009
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Traveling to Republican Kansas, Mr. Obama chose the town of Osawatomie to deliver a stemwinder on a middle class being crushed by the greed of monied interests and their Republican enablers in Washington.
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That populist stemwinder appeal still resonates, regardless of party.
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His speech was, literally, a stemwinder: He stood back from the lectern, bending at the waist as he spoke without benefit of notes or apparent structure.
Rangel's rambling floor speech has House Dems wishing they didn't recognize him 2010
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He did have notes, and delivered a stemwinder about the meaning of Obama's election, the crises of California, the nation, and the world, the challenge of the biggest spending Republican campaign in history, and how Wall Street nearly tanked the economy and must be reined in.
William Bradley: California Story: Brown, Boxer, and (Un)convention(al) Politics 2010
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She needs to rally the party base (which she did with her usual stemwinder at the state party convention), castigate her opponents, and raise a lot of money (cue the president).
William Bradley: California Story: Brown, Boxer, and (Un)convention(al) Politics 2010
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His speech was, literally, a stemwinder: He stood back from the lectern, bending at the waist as he spoke without benefit of notes or apparent structure.
Rangel's rambling floor speech has House Dems wishing they didn't recognize him 2010
whatever1013 commented on the word stemwinder
where i live, stemwinder has a whole different meaning. and to see someone else add it? priceless.
December 19, 2006
john commented on the word stemwinder
"Compare that prescription with a presentation Curley gave in 2004 to the Online News Association. Actually, I thought his earlier speech offered more interesting thoughts about how to deal with an uncertain future than did last evening's stem-winder."
- CNET NewsBlog, November 2, 2007
Great etymology of stemwinder on World Wide Words.
November 4, 2007