Word: straw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mondale has been working Florida harder than any of the other southern states. Blanton recalls that the Mondale organization had 30 paid staffers last fall when Mondale finished strongly against Askew in a state straw poll...
LAST OCTOBER 1, all the Democratic Presidential hopefuls were in Maine, begging for votes from party activists assembled that day to conduct a straw poll beauty pageant all the candidates except Sen. Gary W Hart (D-Colo) Hart was in New Hampshire with a busload of college-age volunteers. And while Walter F. Mondale. Sen John H Glenn (D-Ohio). Sen Alan M Cranston (D-Calif) and George S. McGovern hobnobbed with the Maine party establishment at a party sponsored cocktail party. Hart threw a party for his student workers at a Manchester ski lodge...
Mondale swept that straw poll and a few others, but today it is Hart who is in the limelight. Despite the best efforts of the Democratic National Committee, governors, senators, and Congressmen around the country. Hart is on the verge of pulling off one of the greatest political upsets in American history...
...pale and fat as frog bellies, whose caretaker, after a short time shut up underground, turned as cold, as silent, as blind as those delicious fungi the masters were so fond of. One had only to venture a short distance, lamp in hand, beyond where last year's straw ticks lay rotting, to come across other networks of honeycomb cells, where the new servants, hanging up their shining liveries, their boots or aprons, after the day's work was over, resumed their semblance of private lives, soon aborted by fatigue and despair. . . But none of the Venturas ever...
...forms outside a small white building in downtown Nassau. Holding umbrellas to shade themselves from the warm January sun, citizens chat about the proceedings they have been following. "You keep hearing rumors, so there must be something to it," says a middle-aged man. Volunteers a woman who sells straw hats at the open-air market: "Everything is true; the Prime Minister is through...