Word: straw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strength. His campaign had invested heavily in Iowa, hoping that next February's caucuses would catapult him ahead of the pack, but recently he was passed in the polls there by Paul Simon and Michael Dukakis. So his well-honed organization planned to pack the hall and win a straw ballot at the Nov. 7 dinner, just as Jimmy Carter's supporters did twelve years ago. The problem: the Democratic Party has banned all such contests...
...night of the dinner, Gephardt's local organizers seemed well positioned to win: they filled the auditorium with hundreds of red-capped supporters to counter reports of a stalled campaign. Gephardt admitted that he "would like to have a straw poll." Meanwhile his campaign's hirelings, posing as agents of the newspaper, handed out scores of buff-colored ballots to arriving Democrats...
Other immigrants came prepared for such adversity. William Mills of Texas, who had heard Brazil was full of wild animals, brought his four hunting dogs on the boat to Rio. "Granddad was smart to do so," pipes up Rancher Sydney Mills, 70, wearing a straw sombrero, braided string tie and cowboy boots. "The dogs would often chase and tree pumas that raided the backyard chicken coop, and Granddad would down them with his shotgun. He killed over a dozen...
Although Ginsburg's indiscretion may have been common among members of the Big Chill generation, his confession fatally undermined his support among the Capitol Hill conservatives who had lobbied so hard for his nomination. The disclosure was the final straw in a week of controversy that included accusations of conflict of interest over his investment in a cable-television company, charges by a congressional committee that he ordered the destruction of documents while he worked at the Justice Department, allegations that he improperly sidetracked rules to limit the use of cancer-causing asbestos, and the revelation that his wife...
Usually, the vessel has a secret siphon or straw in the handle (a remarkable feat of ceramic artisanship) with which the patron can imbibe...