Word: straw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Manager Whitey Herzog, 55, scratching his head of straw, would be happy if he could just establish a lineup. Healthy pitchers are so precious that rather than take them out entirely, he sometimes stows them in rightfield. Third Baseman Terry Pendleton has all but joined First Baseman Jack Clark on the casualty list that has made Jim Lindeman and Jose Oquendo famous. "I don't know how we got this far," Herzog keeps saying the farther they go. Their most remarkable comeback was against themselves -- rather, against the memory of the 1985 World Series. On the verge...
...never been a quitter," said the Rev. Jerry Falwell, choking back tears. But quitter he was last week, exhausted by unending financial woes and attacks from believers who opposed his rule at the PTL Christian conglomerate. The final straw was a decision by Federal Bankruptcy Judge Rufus Reynolds that Falwell's financial rescue plan did not accommodate creditors and contributors. Reynolds suggested that Falwell should control only, say, five of nine PTL board members. Convinced that new board members might help restore the defrocked Jim Bakker, Falwell resigned, along with top administrators and current board members. The entire affair, said...
Despite the dean's ruling, after his announcement the class participated in a straw poll in which 13 of the 14 students attending sided with the professor, Jacobi said...
Subway posters in Atlanta show a cup of Coke against a backdrop of a straw basket and a red checkered tablecloth. Usually something can be served on a checkered cloth only if Timmy and Lassie and Andy and Opie would eat it; but if the latest ad blitz is as successful as Santa was, the colorizing fanatics going after these shows will soon be dyeing breakfast beverages brown...
...eventually did, Gephardt was supposed to get the majority of labor support, but both [candidates] are closely battling [for the labor vote], and Babitt was expected to get the Hispanic vote in the South, but Dukakis came in, spoke a few words of Spanish, and walked away with a straw poll victory," Goldman said...