Word: straw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Student Advisory Committee of the Institute of Politics will sponsor a computer-processed straw poll Tuesday in the undergraduate dining halls...
...straw poll is one the costliest endeavors ever for the student group, almost $2000, according to organizers...
...corker that had pretty well run its course when Flip Wilson retired it about a decade ago. Heller makes David say it no fewer than three times. Who can forget the noted humorist and slugger Reggie Jackson and his boast "I'm the straw that stirs the drink"? Certainly not Heller, who uses this line three times as well. The spirit of Woody Allen is sometimes summoned forth: "That which is crooked cannot be made straight, although with that one I believe there are psychotherapists who might disagree." When all else fails, a common enough occurrence in this narrative...
...Plenty. Cowboy hats, sun hats, a couple of tricornes, several cardboard crowns, a red-white-and-blue beret. California wore black Zorro hats, and a delegate from New Jersey had an elephant head on his head-if that counts as a hat. One woman at the convention wore a straw skimmer with an elephant on top, which also wore a hat, an Uncle Sam. She was holding a Cabbage Patch doll, which wore another skimmer, on which stood another elephant...
...rooms." ("Degenerate" is an acknowledged category of gambler in Las Vegas, one step ahead of "compulsive" on the road to ruin.) In perfect synchronization, the two women lean over with brushes in both hands, and each beats her hair into a froth. Upright again, both declare, "Ugh! Straw!" The little bimbo says, "I'd never put color on my hair. People would think I was phony...