Word: straw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mondale is going all out in the half-dozen preprimary votes, like the straw poll of party activists in Springfield, Mass., that he won two weeks ago. "You never know which of these events is going to be the first real test," says Mondale Strategist Jim Johnson...
...have given the people of Grenada a one-engine crop sprayer and imported two cream-colored Mercedes sedans for themselves. But they are a bit slow on the draw when it comes to parting with nickels on the beach. They have not won the hearts and minds of the straw-doll and coconut vendors, who complain that the visitors bring their own thermos bottles and never buy native coral jewelry...
...first problem that serious hats and hatters face is that most men tend to think they look idiotic wearing one. That is often true, but need not be. Fred Astaire may be God's best human design for a serious hat (or for something more problematic, like the straw boater). But even short fat men, who think that serious hats turn them into Nikita Khrushchev, can usually find one that makes them look better than they deserve. Oddly, women often wear men's hats more handsomely than...
Many have cried that such a move was foul play, and that issues--the true purpose of the gathering--took a back seat to the glamour of the political pageant. And their argument is bolstered by the fact that the straw poll, originally scheduled as the last item on the weekend agenda, was moved earlier in the day, so the results could make the network news and the early Sunday papers...
...very defeat of these measures underlines how sorely they are needed. The straw nonbinding presidential preference poll taken at the convention will probably mean very little in the overall scheme of things. But the battle over accountability and rules reform, in which a few party leaders were able to manipulate the proceedings to preserve their power, was a significant display of what ails politics in the state...