Word: straw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...results in San Antonio were interesting, but the procedure was highly unorthodox. Ohio Senator John Glenn trounced former Vice President Walter Mondale in a straw poll 452 votes to 108, with the rest of the field far behind. In contrast to other symbolic showdowns among Democratic presidential contenders, the one held by party regulars at the Villita assembly hall was followed by Breathalyzer tests to make sure the voters were sober enough to drive home. Their "votes" consisted of buying $5 margarita cocktails in the name of their favorite candidate. For Colorado Senator Gary Hart, whose Texas backers drank only...
...exactly a year before 3,923 Democratic delegates will descend on San Francisco to choose their party's presidential nominee. But already the contenders are being ranked in a series of surveys and straw polls (some perhaps no more enlightening than a round of margaritas, but anxiously studied nonetheless). This month is filled with "cattle show" appearances before key political groups: the Sierra Club and the National Education Association a week ago, the National Women's Political Caucus this past weekend, the N.A.A.C.P. this week, the National Council of Senior Citizens later in the month. The fall will...
...Bedford rape has become the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back for area feminists, who marched on New Bedford City Hall in protest Monday night. Their march came less than two weeks after feminists at several Boston area campuses, Harvard included staged "Take Back the Night" marches protesting rape and other violence against women. These matches were staged in support of a march at Brandeis University. Where there have been more then half a dozen rapes in the past year. The barroom rape in New Bedford is bringing a lot of media attention to the problem...
...Ethiopians died; this year's disaster is even more pervasive. Gondar province, once known as Ethiopia's grain basket, has become a shriveled wasteland. Where rain has fallen, there are no seeds to plant; where it has not, there is no wood for building, and nothing but straw and dung for fuel. In addition, the remoteness of the area makes communication difficult and the provision of supplies almost impossible. In some camps refugees must either wait 36 hours for their turn at the local well or walk for three hours over rough terrain to reach the nearest source...
...Poznan, Radom, Lublin and other Polish cities. There were uniformed boy scouts, nurses in white tunics, peasant women in brightly colored scarves, and Silesian miners in black uniforms and tall hats topped with black feathers. Farmers from Lowicz, 50 miles southwest of Warsaw, were dressed in their native costume: straw hats with blue ribbons, elaborately embroidered red jackets and black felt pants...